PSY 2301 Lecture 1: origins(1)

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 2301
• Professor: Andra Smith

Document Summary

Behaviour: why study brain and behaviour, perspectives on brain and behaviour, evolution of brain and behaviour, human evolution, evolution of the human brain, studying brain and behaviour in modern. Cerebral cortex: heavily folded outer layer of brain tissue composed of neurons (cortex = bark ) Gross structure of the nervous system: central nervous system (cns) Spinal cord: part of the cns encased within the vertebrae or spinal column: peripheral nervous system (pns) All the neurons in the body that are located outside the brain and spinal cord. Gross structure of the nervous system: neuron. A brain cell engaged in information processing: sensory neuron. Neuron that carries incoming information from sensory receptors into the spinal cord and brain: motor neuron. Neuron that carries information from the spinal cord and brain to make muscles contract. Examples: movements, vocalizations, thinking, memory, julien offroy de la mettrie argued that thought was produced by the brain.