PSY 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Myelin, Cerebral Cortex, Artificiality

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: Gary Capstick

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Placebo neurons communicate: neural communication neurons, neural structure, neural functioning, how, the nervous system subdivisions, the brain neuroimaging techniques, lower level brain structures, cerebral cortex functions of cortex, motor, sensory etc. Used in experiments inert substance or treatment that doesn"t do anything. You want to check if taking something makes you more paranoid or if its. Group who receive a placebo for comparison purposes. Blind procedure for subjects: kept blind or unaware of whether receiving treatment or not controls for subject bias, tendency to respond to cues and try to figure out the hypothesis and try to help. Three disadvantages: artificiality, design difficulties, time consuming. Also called neuro- or physiological psych or behavioral neuroscience. Helps provide avenues to change behavior like making drugs. Also helps us understand why we do what we do and why we act this way. Neurons: nerve cells, basic unit of nerbous system. Neuronal structure: cell body contains, nucleus, cell life support structures.