PSYC 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Sympathetic Nervous System, Monosodium Glutamate, Curare

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Jeffrey Yen

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Module 4: neural and hormonal systems (reading notes) Central principle to today"s psychology: everything psychological is simultaneously biological. Your every idea, every mood, every urge is a biological happening. We find it convenient to talk separately of biological and psychological character traits influences on behavior, we need to remember: to think, feel, or act without a body would be like running without legs. Among these are nerve cells that conduct electricity and (cid:498)talk(cid:499) to one another by sending chemical messages across a tiny gap that separates them. Specific brain systems serve specific functions (though not the functions gall supposed) We integrate information processed in these different brain systems to construct our experience of sights and sounds, meanings and memories, pain and passion. Our adaptive brain is wired by our experience: also realized that humans are each a system composed of subsystems that are in turn composed of even smaller subsystems and information processing. Tiny cells organize to form body organs.