PSYCH 2 Study Guide - Fall 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Nervous System, Memory, Visual Cortex
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Psychology"s subfields: basic research: builds psychology"s knowledge base, applied research: tackles practical problems. They may also play a role in inward to spinal cord and brain for processing. Central nervous system (brain and spinal cord) and peripheral nervous. System (sensory and motor neurons connecting the central nervous system to the rest of the body). learning, thinking, and memory. The nervous system: gathers and transmits information, nerves: bundles axons forming neural cables connecting cns with muscles, glands, and sense organs. Older brain structures: less complex brain in primitive vertebrates regulates basic survival functions. If the brain is damaged early in life, the other may assume many functions by reorganizing or building new pathways: ability to change, especially during childhood, ability diminishes later in life formation of new neurons. Psych lecture #5: brain communication, neural firing, neurons communicate with each other electrochemically: chemicals cause an electrical signal, the electrical signal that travels down a neuron is called an action potential.
