Which of the Following Statements About the Effects of Drugs

question 53

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements about the effects of drugs on the brain is FALSE?

• A) Eventually, a drug addict is not able to experience pleasure from anything-not even the drug being abused.
• B) Addictive drugs activate the pleasure and reward circuit.
• C) The parts of the brain involved in rational thought are not affected.
• D) Drugs that bind to endorphin receptors reduce pain.

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Normally Distributed

A distribution that is symmetric about the mean, showing that data near the mean are more frequent in occurrence than data far from the mean.

Standard Deviation

A measure of the dispersion or spread of a set of numbers, indicating how much the individual numbers differ from the mean of the set.

Mean

The average of a set of numbers, calculated by dividing the sum of the values by the count of numbers.

Probability Density Functions

Functions that describe the relative likelihood for a continuous random variable to take on a given value.