Behavioral pharmacology became a distinct discipline in the early 1950s. The impetus to develop the field arose largely due to
a. the tremendous therapeutic and commercial success of chlorpromazine and other antipsychotic drugs.
b. the need to design tests for laboratory animals that were useful in screening drugs for potential therapeutic effects in humans.
c. the compelling demonstration by Peter Dews of the usefulness of Skinner’s operant techniques to study drug effects.
d. the application of physiology to the understanding of behavior, largely inspired by Joseph Brady.
e. all of the above factors contributed to the development of the field of behavioral pharmacology.
Answer: E
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