PSYC 2000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-3: Francis Sumner, Mary Whiton Calkins, Mary Cover Jones
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If for any reason a study results in undesirable consequences for the participant, the researcher is responsible for detecting and removing or correcting these consequences. Animal research: with animals, the focus is on avoiding exposing them to any unnecessary pain or suffering, necropsy: autopsy on animal. Expertise does not make everything that person claims automatically true: critical thinkng requires an open mind. Neurons; (cid:373)ea(cid:374)s (cid:862)t(cid:396)ee-like(cid:863) o(cid:396) (cid:862)(cid:271)(cid:396)a(cid:374)(cid:272)h(cid:863: soma: the cell body of the neuron responsible for maintaining the life of the cell, axon: tube-like structure of a neuron that carries the neural message from the. Cell body to the axon terminals for communication with other cells: axon terminals: enlarged ends of axonal branches of the neuron, specialized for. Insulate, protect, and speed up the neural impulse: nerves: bundles of axons coated in myelin that travel together through the body, nodes: spaces on axon not covered in myelin.
