Stimulus Properties of Drugs

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Interoceptive Stimulus Control of Behavior

      • Travis Thompson, Roy Pickens

      Pages 3-11

3. Unconditioned Stimulus Functions of Drugs

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13

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   2. Drug Conditioning and Drug Effects on Cardiovascular Conditional Functions

      • Jorge Perez-Cruet

      Pages 15-38

   3. Conditioning of the Activity Effects of Drugs

      • Roy Pickens, John A. Dougherty

      Pages 39-50

   4. Nalorphine: Conditioning of Drug Effects on Operant Performance

      • Steven Robert Goldberg

      Pages 51-72

   5. Unconditioned Stimulus Functions of Drugs: Interpretations

      • Howard F. Hunt, Milton A. Trapold

      Pages 73-83

4. Discriminative Stimulus Functions of Drugs

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 85-85

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   2. Discriminative Control of Behavior by Drug States

      • Donald A. Overton

      Pages 87-110

   3. An Analysis of the Function of Drugs in the Stimulus Control of Operant Behavior

      • Robert T. Harris, Robert L. Balster

      Pages 111-132

   4. The Discriminate Control of a Food-Reinforced Operant by Interoceptive Stimulation

      • Charles R. Schuster, Joseph V. Brady

      Pages 133-148

   5. Discriminative Stimulus Functions of Drugs: Interpretations

      • A. Charles Catania, J. Bruce Overmier

      Pages 149-160

5. Reinforcing Stimulus Functions of Drugs

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 161-161

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   2. Opiates as Reinforcing Stimuli

      • James H. Woods, Charles R. Schuster

      Pages 163-175

   3. Characteristics of Stimulant Drug Reinforcement

      • Roy Pickens, Travis Thompson

      Pages 177-192

   4. Environmental Variables Influencing Drug Self-Administration

      • Travis Thompson, George Bigelow, Roy Pickens

      Pages 193-207

   5. Reinforcing Stimulus Functions of Drugs: Interpretations

      • Peter B. Dews, Kenneth MacCorquodale

      Pages 209-217

6. Back Matter

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Behavioral pharmacology represents a relatively recent scientific enterprise, the development of which can be followed by plotting the publication of major conceptual papers, review articles, and books. Dews (1955), Sidman (1955), and Brady (1956) published some of the first methodologically significant papers, changing the way both psychologists and pharmacologists viewed the analysis of the behavioral actions of drugs. Dews and Morse (1961), Cook and Kelleher (1963), Gollub and Brady (1965), and Weiss and Laties (1969) kept the field abreast of major developments in the study of behavioral mechanisms of drug action. In 1968, the first textbook in the field was published (Thompson and Schuster), followed by a book of readings covering the preceding 15 years of the field (Thompson, Pickens, and Meisch, 1970). The first attempt to outline a set of generalizations concerning behavioral mechanisms of drug actions was puhlished in 1968 by Kelleher and Morse. As behavioral pharmacology developed, it became clear that demonstrations that drugs affect hehavior were relatively uninteresting. It was the mechanisms by which these effects are hrought about that was of concern. While other aspects of pharmacology have been concerned with biochemical, physiological, and in some cases biophysical accounts of drug actions, behavioral pharmacology has dealt with behavioral mechanisms . . . that is, "any verifiable description of a drug's effects which can he shown to uniquely covary with a specific measured 'response'. Generally, this relation can be subsumed under some more general set of relations or principles" (Thompson, Pickens, and Meisch, 1970, p. I).

• behavior
• development
• drug
• drugs
• environment
• pharmacology

• Departments of Psychiatry and Pharmacology, Univeristy of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA

  Travis Thompson, Roy Pickens

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