PSY-0001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Autonomic Nervous System, Peripheral Nervous System, Sympathetic Nervous System
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Cns: formation: brain and spinal cord, cns sends signals through the sns to muscles, joints, and skin to initiate, modulate prohibit movement. The pns sends a variety of information to the cns. The cns organizes and evaluates that information and then directs the pns to perform specific behaviors or make bodily adjustments. Hormones: are chemical substances released to the bloodstream by the ductless endocrine glands, such as . pic, classification, sexual behavior: (secondary sex characters, androgens : e. g. testosterone , estrogens : e. g. estradiol , progesterone . Hormones are secreted from several places in the body. Neural activation causes the hypothalamus to secrete a particular one of its many releasing factors. The particular releasing factor causes the pituitary to release a hormone specific to that factor, and the hormone then travels through the bloodstream to endocrine sites throughout the body. 2. e. g. of coordination between ns es: growth hormone.