Psychology 1000 Lecture : Psych sept 18.docx

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Terry Biggs

Document Summary

Descartes was first to seriously propose that humans be studied as one would study any machine. His views are still with us today as we employ metaphorical comparisons between the human mind and computers. To descartes all action was as a response to some external event (finish) We agree with descartes that the bulk of human behavior is reflexive. This necessitates a tripartite system: reception via the senses, reaction via muscles and glands, integration mediator between reception and reaction via conduction. The external event is called the stimulus as it stimulates the. The receptors convert the energy and channel it to bundles of nerves called afferent nerves (sensory) Dendrites receive messages from other neurons. Cell body contains (finish: glial cells. Surround neurons and hold them in place. Where regular glucose is transformed into (finish: nerve conduction. Neurons have a resting potential of -. 70 millivolts, creating a state of polarization.