PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Autonomic Nervous System, Efferent Nerve Fiber, Peripheral Nervous System

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Christopher Miners

Document Summary

How the nervous system generates behaviour (originally called physiological, now called neuroscience) Neuroscientists attempt to determine the relationship between behaviours, including thoughts/feelings and activity in the brain/hormonal systems. How the structure of the nervous system determines behaviour: describe the divisions of the nervous system, describe the spinal reflex arc. How the way the body transmits information generates behaviour: describe the structure of the neuron and define the action potential, describe how neurons communicate with each other using neurotransmitters, explain how neurotransmitters affect behaviour and mental processes. The cns is composed of two classes of cells: neurons and glia (the glia, neuroglia, or glial cells are supporting cells. Go to this link to learn more about: neurons, synapses, action potentials, and neurotransmission http://www. mind. ilstu. edu/curriculum/neurons_intro/neurons_intro. php. Interneurons any neuron that is not a sensory or motor neuron, link other neurons and integrate/communicate info instead of transmitting info from the body to the brain or vice versa.