The purpose of this research was to examine more closely the conditioning factors that are assumed to be operating in heroin and cocaine addiction. The goal of this study was to determine the specific nature of psychophysiological responses of cocaine and heroin addicts when they are exposed to drug-related stimuli, to investigate whether classical conditioning occurs through association with the positive intoxicating effects or the aversive withdrawal symptoms of each drug, and whether this conditioning of psychophysiological symptoms to environmental stimuli occurs in cocaine addiction in a manner analogous to that seen in heroin addiction. / Multivariate analysis of variance procedures were employed to determine whether the addicts differed from matched control subjects on physiological measures of heart rate, skin conductance level, peripheral skin temperature, and on subjective ratings of craving, withdrawal-like, and high-like symptoms. Results indicate that heroin addicts in this sample experienced significantly greater withdrawal-like symptoms, and high-like symptoms, while cocaine addicts experienced significantly greater withdrawal-like symptoms high-like symptoms, and craving in response to the drug-related stimuli than did the control subjects. / The results are discussed in terms of the classical and operant conditioning paradigms, and treatment implications are examined. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 51-02, Section: B, page: 1034. / Major Professor: Jack G. May, Jr. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1989.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_78183 |
| Contributors | Eaton, Bradford John., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 99 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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