Questions & Answers
According to Faraday & Grunberg (1999), mechanistic animal models have helped to:
A. delineate the addictive properties of nicotine
B. understand how kids smoke cigarettes and, subsequently, marijuana and heroin
C. infer bio-behavioral processes among humans
D. all the above - ANSWERSA
What animal model is used to investigate self-administration of nicotine?
A. mechanistic models
B. face valid models
C. models with free standing indices responses
D. none of the above - ANSWERSB
According to Faraday & Grunberg (1999), ____________ animal models reproduce the
behaviors or biological symptoms associated with the human condition.
A. biobehavioral
B. face valid
C. inference
D. mechanistic - ANSWERSB
According to Faraday & Grunberg (1999), which type of animal model helped to reveal that the
neurobiological underpinnings of cocaine, heroin and alcohol addiction (e.g., dopamine reward
pathway) also underlie nicotine addiction?
A. bio-behavioral
, B. face valid
C. inference
D. mechanistic - ANSWERSD
According to Faraday & Grunberg (1998), _______________ by a mouse is an indicator of
anxiety in humans in an inference model.
A. acoustic startle reflex
B. jumping
C. locomotion activity
D. none of the above - ANSWERSC
Currently, animal models are widely used in nicotine research to examine what variables?
(select all that apply)
A. biochemical
B. neurochemical
C. neuroanatomic
D. electrophysiologic
E. none of the above - ANSWERSA, B, C, D
Research has indicated that rats, like humans, find nicotine reinforcing.
A. True
B. False - ANSWERSA
According to Alzoubi et al (2018), the SPS model consisted of what type of stressors?
A. 2 hour restraint, 20 minute forced swim and ether anesthesia
B. 2.5 hour restraint, 20 minute forced swim and nitrogen anesthesia
C. 2 hour restraint, 15 minute forced swim and hydrogen anesthesia