Contemporary Research in Behavioral Pharmacology, 1978

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1 • Schedule-Controlled Behavior and the Effects of Drugs.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Schedule-Controlled Behavior.- 3. Effects of Drugs on Schedule-Controlled Behavior.- 4. Summary and Conclusions.- 5. References.- 2 • The Effects of Drugs on Behavior Controlled by Aversive Stimul.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Drug—Behavior Interactions in Conflict—Punishment Procedures.- 3. Continuous Avoidance Procedures.- 4. The Conditioned Emotional Response.- 5. General Summary and Conclusions.- 6. References.- 3 • Stimulus Control and Drug Effects.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Multiple Schedules and Related Procedures.- 3. Chained Schedules and Related Procedures.- 4. Summary and Conclusions.- 5. References.- 4 • Drug-Induced Stimulus Control.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Methods for the Demonstration of Drug-Induced Stimulus Control.- 3. Interpretations of Drug-Induced Stimulus Control.- 4. Epilogue.- 5. References.- 5 • The Effects of Drugs on Adjunctive Behavior.- 1. Operant and Adjunctive Behavior.- 2. Drugs and Adjunctive Behavior.- 3. Conclusions.- 4. References.- 6 • Schedule-Induced Self-Administration of Drugs.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Schedule-Induced Ethanol Consumption.- 3. Determinants of Schedule-Induced Ethanol Polydipsia.- 4. Schedule-Induced Consumption of Drugs Other Than Ethanol.- 5. An Animal Model of Human Alcoholism.- 6. Summary.- 7. References.- 7 • Drugs as Reinforcers.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Establishment of Drugs as Reinforcers.- 3. Type of Drug.- 4. Magnitude of Reinforcement.- 5. Satiation and Deprivation.- 6. Conditioned Drug Effects.- 7. Drugs as Negative Reinforcers.- 8. Punishment.- 9. An Application of Drug Self-Administration Techniques: The Preclinical Assessment of the Abuse Liability of New Compounds.- 10. Human Self-Administration Studies.- 11. Summary.-12. References.- 8 • Behavioral Tolerance.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Behavioral Tolerance in Perspective.- 3. Pharmacological and Organismic Factors.- 4. Environmental Factors: The Reinforcement Density Hypothesis.- 5. Tolerance to Stimulus Properties of Drugs.- 6. Conclusions.- 7. References.- 9 • Behavioral Toxicology.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Distinguishing Features of Behavioral Toxicology.- 3. Behavioral Toxicology in the Soviet Union.- 4. Substances of Current Interest.- 5. Factors That Modulate the Behavioral Effects of Toxins.- 6. Future Developments.- 7. Summary.- 8. References.- Author Index.