[PSY2301] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes fot the exam (49 pages long!)
30 Mar 2017
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Why study brain and behaviour: eg parkinson"s, depletion of dopamine - much more complex - 80% depletion of dopamine to see disease, by this point you can"t go back. Lack of dopamine everywhere, area that produces dopamine. Spinal cord; how brain communicates with the body. Gross structure of the nervous system: central nervous system, peripheral nervous system, autonomic, automatic things in body (breathing) Sensory neuron: bring in info from evironment, motor neuron, acting on the information from spinal cord and brain to make muscles contract. What is behaviour: humans have the most diverse behaviours, behaviours consist of patterns and time. Fixed; we don"t learn; naturally have: eg. Kittens will kill a bird even if they haven"t seen it before. Flexible ways of responding: baby leading how to use a bottle, more complex the behavoiur the more complex the brain. Simple nervous system = narrow range of behaviour: complex nervous system = wider range of behaviour.
