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Discriminative stimulus properties of drugs: a brief history and a selective review
Author(s) -
JÅRBE T. U. C.,
SWEDBERG M. D. B.
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.743
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9450
pISSN - 0036-5564
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9450.1982.tb00453.x
Subject(s) - discriminative model , psychology , stimulus control , dissociation (chemistry) , stimulus (psychology) , cognitive psychology , drug , cognitive science , neuroscience , artificial intelligence , psychiatry , computer science , chemistry , nicotine
A brief history of the background of drug discrimination research is given, focusing on the concepts of “drug dissociation” or state‐dependent learning; an alternative explanation to the state dependency concept is to view the drug as a discriminative stimulus. In drug discrimination learning both a qualitative and a quantitative dimension is identified as governing the discrimination, examples of which are provided in the text. Examples of how drug discrimination techniques may assist in future research are outlined.