PSYCH 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Resting Potential, Peripheral Nervous System, Midbrain Tectum
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Psych 111 - lecture 4 - the biological bases of behavior. Divided into two parts: the central nervous system and the peripheral nervous system. Made up of the brain and the spinal cord. Functions include: receiving, processing, and storing incoming information; sends out messages to muscles, glands and internal organs. The central command system which controls thought and movement. Nervous system outside the brain and the spinal cord which handles input and output of. Connects the brain and spinal cord to the other areas of the body - organs and muscles. Individual cells which receive, integrate and transmit information. Sensory or afferent neurons: carry information to the brain from the skin, muscles, organs. Motor of efferent neurons: carry the brains output to muscles, glands, organs. Interneurons: neurons that connect sensory neurons, motor neurons, or other interneurons. Mirror neurons: neurons which are activated by performing an action or by seeing another perform the same action.
