PSYA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Visual Cortex, Cerebral Cortex, Temporal Lobe
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Nervous system chart: peripheral nervous system, somatic ns is when you command your body to do something (conscious will, automatic is re ex and automatic even if we dont command it. Works with muscles and body but has 2 modes you can ip through: sympathetic ns is ght or ight mode. Tells you theres a stress you have to do something. Which messes with the automatic system and ruins our health: parasympathetic ns is when your body is worried about long term survival. Autnotmic system send a signal to muscles to let go. Somatic has goals and desire to save the food so its the opposite of atomic. It overrides and tell you other options such as walk over to the counter then let go. Neurons: signals are links that pass signals onto one another whether its leaner or more broad (much like social media, a neuron ca do 1 of 2 things.
