PSY100H1 Chapter 1: Chapter 1 Study Guide

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100H1
• Professor: Dan Dolderman

Document Summary

Introduction: psychological science 1 refers to the study of the mind, brain and behavior, mind refers to mental activity such as thoughts thoughts and feelings. Perceptual experiences we have (senses - i. e. , sight, smell, etc) are examples of the mind in action: the brain has biological processes which creates mental activity. In other words, it is the physical brain that enables the mind: behavior is used to describe a wide variety of actions, from the subtle to the complex, that occur in organisms from ants to humans. Brain chemistry: the brain works through the actions of chemicals known as neurotransmitters which communicate messages between nerve cells. Hundreds of different substances play critical roles in mental activity and behavior. People remember things more when they are aroused as opposed to when they are calm because chemicals involved in responding to stimuli in uence the neural mechanisms involved in memory.