PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Phantom Limb, Peripheral Nervous System, Resting Potential

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jordan Poppenk

Document Summary

Psychology is the scienti c study of behaviour, thought, and experience. Not the study of the brain (although the brain matters) Neuroscience is the scienti c study of the nervous system. Not the study of the behaviour (although it impacts behaviour) Therefore behaviour is probably related to the nervous system. Central nervous system (brain and spinal cord) Peripheral nervous system (the nerves leading to everything else. Going numb or :pins and needles is when you pinch a nerve. Phantom limb syndrome the nerves have been severed but the body part that is no longer there feels cramped. Autonomic system : sends signal to the organs. Put priority to the things that are needed. If your being chased your body doesn"t need to be digesting lunch it needs to increase blood. The signal reached the end of the axon. The signal and vesicle travel to the synaptic cleft. Drugs can make the substate t into the enzyme (agonist)