PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Neurogenesis, Stem Cell, Curare

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Benjamin Giguere

Document Summary

Biological perspective: concerned with the links between biology and behaviour. Premise of psychology: the human mind and the human brain are one. The human brain and mind is unique among any other animals on the planet, provides us consciousness. Allows the integration of sensory information, manages the regulation of the body, behaviour and mental processes. The (cid:271)iolog(cid:455) of the (cid:373)i(cid:374)d (cid:271)ei(cid:374)g (cid:449)ith the (cid:862)ato(cid:373)s(cid:863) of the (cid:373)i(cid:374)d (cid:862)neurons . Brain is able to unifies all experiences and can focus on one particular factor. Cell body: contains the nucleus and decides the activation. Myelin: covers some neurons and facilitates neural impulses. Information is relayed within a neuron through action potential, that is a nural impulse that travels to the terminal buttons by the axon and is generated by a moving positive and negative charges, akin to a wave. Threshold: the level of stimulation required to trigger a neutral impuls. Whe(cid:374) e(cid:374)ough sa(cid:455) (cid:862)go(cid:863) the threshold is rea(cid:272)hed.