What are three primary reasons that LSD, mescaline, and psilocybin are generally considered to belong to the same class of hallucinogen?
What will be an ideal response?
Their effects are all mediated through their actions on 5-HT receptors. Their effects are subjectively indistinguishable from one another at appropriate doses. They share a molecular structure with either dopamine or serotonin and have several methyl groups attached to them. Tolerance to their effects occurs fairly rapidly and there is profound cross-tolerance among them.
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What is the difference between undergraduate and graduate study?
a. Graduate study is more broad b. Graduate study entails specializing in one subfield c. Undergraduate study entails refining skills d. They are much the same
A study conducted by Schutzwohl and Koch (2004)-in which participants had to listen to a story about their own romantic relationship and embedded within the story were five cues highly diagnostic of sexual infidelity and five cues highly diagnostic of emotional infidelity-found that:
A. men spontaneously remembered more cues to emotional than to sexual infidelity. B. women remembered more cues to emotional than to sexual infidelity. C. men remembered cues to their mates' physical attractiveness more than cues to either emotional or sexual infidelity. D. women remembered cues to their mates' financial success more than cues to either emotional or sexual infidelity.