PS 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Myelin, Neuroglia, Amnesia
23 Jul 2017
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Biological perspective: a way of looking at psychological phenomena by studying how physiology contributes to behavior and experience. Interdisciplinary field of scientific study that examines the structure and function of all parts of the nervous system. Alzheimer"s disease: an irreversible, progressive brain disease that slowly destroys an individual"s memory and thought processes, symptoms, problems with memory, forgetting and repeating things, getting lost. In what ways can psychologists use the five different perspectives to investigate. Alzheimer"s disease: they notice a genetic component (biological, memory loss (cognitive, ways to cope (psychologists as scientists, family relationships (social, age by age 50 it gets more common (developmental) The human brain: 1 trillion cells divided into glial cells and neurons, fueled by glucose. Glial: most numerous, nourish neurons, help them to communicate. Neurons: process info throughout the nervous system. Resting state: axon has a charge, charge results from the axon membrane separating positive ions on the outside and negative on the inside, action potential.
