PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Reuptake, Myelin, Behavioural Genetics

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Dan Meegan

Document Summary

Building blocks of the mind: neurons and how they communicate (neurotransmitters) Systems that build the mind: functions of parts of the nervous system. Developed by franz gall in the early 1800s. The study of bumps on the skull and their relationship to mental abilities and character traits. Phrenology yielded one big idea that the brain might have different areas that do different things (localization function) Includes neuroscience, behavior genetics, neuropsychology, and evolutionary psychology. What are the consequences of brain damage. How the nature of mind and behavior is rooted to our biological heritage. Electrical and chemical activity is the basis of all motion, thoughts and feelings. Cell body with nucleus, energy coming through dendrites. Neurotransmitter leaves end of axon, binding to dendrites on another neuron. Neurons basic job is to conduct electrical and chemical information using charged ions. When chemical input is put through from on axon to a dendrite, the neuron fires because there.