PSYC06H3 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Vasoconstriction, Electrodermal Activity, Qrs Complex
20 Feb 2013
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Psychophysiology overview (lecture 1 & associated readings) total chaps (1,2,4,5,12 so i. e. pages 1-35, 47-67, 178-203: definition of psychophysiology: from the lec: psychophysiology studies embodiment of the mind; looks at relationships between mental processes and bodily responses. John stern defines it as any research in which dependent var (subject"s response) is physiological and the independent var is a behavioral one. Ans: somatic nervous system: composed of efferent neurons that project out of the cns and innervate skeletal musculature. Dendrites of motor neurons are found in central horn of spinal cord: muscles: each motor neuron with the group of muscles innervated by it is called a motor unit. On the cellular level, these muscles are composed of myofibrils, each myofibril is made up of tiny filaments. There are two kinds of these, actin and myosin which overlap slightly but aren"t bound to each other.
