PSYCH101 Lecture Notes - Peripheral Nervous System, Parasympathetic Nervous System, Sympathetic Nervous System

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Richard Ennis

Document Summary

The 2 requirements for interacting with the environment: there are two requirements for interacting with the environment, sense and perception (afferent): We must be able to observe the information from the external world and somehow bring it into our own minds. The act of being able to detect and observe this information is an. After the information from the outside world is detected/observed, we also need to be able to respond to it in order to survive. This act of response to the information by the external world is an. Diagram of a neuron: the above is a neuron, otherwise known as a brain cell. The brain"s numbers & connections: the brain has 100 billion neurons, neurons in the brain ultimately connect with one another to form many networks. 621, 000m in length if all the connected neurons were laid end-to-end: the brain learns by modifying certain connections in response to feedback, allowing very specific skills to develop.