PSYC 2307- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 106 pages long!)

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2307
• Professor: Brian Tansley

Document Summary

Central nervous system (cns) - part of the vertebrate nervous system located within the skull and spine made up of the brain and spinal cord. Brain - perception, thought, memory, emotion, speech. Receives signals from sensory fibres of pns and conducts them to the brain for complex analysis. Receives signals from the brain and conducts them to the motor fibres of the pns. Performs the simple and rapid analyses that mediate many of our reflexive responses. Spinal gray matter - h-shaped area of gray tissue in the core of the spinal cord. Home to cell bodies of neurons and their local connection. Spinal white matter - area of white tissue surrounding the spinal gray matter. Made up of electrically insulated, long-distance connections between neurons. Bundles of nerve fibres emerge the spinal cord at 31 levels, all. 124 (31x4) of them contain both ans and sns fibers.