PSYC 2600H Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Opponent Process, Classical Conditioning, Grou

• School: Trent University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2600H
• Professor: Lehmann Hugo

Document Summary

If you keep using a drug you will less and less enjoy the drug: habituaion occurs in a tolerance, however, suddenly using the same amount of typical use will overdose. Reason for spontaneous od is in classical condiioning: it is context dependent. Ex. heroin addicts use the drug in the same environment (i use a low dose in my basement try again next day less of a response) Individuals will increase a dose: when i change the environment, the context for the environment my body gets ready. If i leave my basement and do it at a party my body isn"t ready: if the context is similar, then simulus generalizaion occurs. Siegel (1982) loss of heroin tolerance: rats can get heroin in their home cage everyday for a few days. Rats would also be put into a noisy. Group noisy room room and received a placebo. Another group received heroin in the opposite context.