PSYC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Peripheral Nervous System, Fluid Compartments, Axon Terminal

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1001
• Professor: BRUCE TSUJI

Document Summary

Ii a; b and d. for c (n and b) The nervous system consists of two major systems: the central and peripheral nervous system. The central nervous system consists of the brain and the spinal cord. The peripheral consists of all the nerves in the body. Together they make the nervous system: each one of them has a specific function. However, they do work together as an integrated unit: the simplest behavior, ex scratching your face takes the central and peripheral nervous system, function of the nervous system, think of the nervous system as a communication network. Thereby, creating behavior and controlling movements: by looking at these three functions, you understand why it is a communication network. In addition to those 3 functions, the nervous system somehow creates conscious experience; you know what it going around you, you feel it. Research on this is huge right now because researchers want to find out how conscious experience comes about.