Psychology 2036A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Sympathetic Nervous System, Peripheral Nervous System, Parasympathetic Nervous System
22 Jan 2018
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Learning objectives: nervous system, endocrine system, function of immune system, physiological systems involved in stress response. The immune system: microbes that cause infection are transmitted to people in four ways: direct transmission, indirect transmission, biological transmission, and mechanical transmission, direct transmission: bodily contact such as handshaking, kissing, and sexual intercourse (ex. Indirect transmission (or environmental transmission): microbes passed via airborne particles such as dust, water, soil, or food (ex. Influenza: biological transmission: when a transmitting agent, such as a mosquito, picks up microbes and changes them into a form conducive to growth in the human body, and passes on the disease to the human (ex. Yellow fever: mechanical transmission: passage of a microbe to an individual by means of a character that is not directly involved in the disease process (ex. Immunity: immunity the body"s resistance to injury from invading organisms (naturally or artificially, artificial immunity.
