PSYC 001 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Mirror Neuron, Implicit Memory, Response Bias
22 Mar 2016
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Central nervous system: the brain and the spinal cord. Peripheral nervous system: all nerve cells in the body that are not part of the central nervous system. The peripheral nervous system includes the somaic and autonomic nervous systems. Neurons: the basic unites of the nervous system; cells that receive, integrate, and transmit informaion in the nervous system. Dendrites: branchlike extensions of the neuron that detect informaion from other neurons. Cell body: the site in the neuron where informaion from thousands of other neurons is collected and integrated. Axon: a long narrow outgrowth of a neuron by which informaion is transmited to other neurons. Terminal butons (branches): at the ends of the axons, small nodules that release chemical signals from the neurons in the synapse. Synapse: the gap between the axon of a sending neuron and the dendrites of a. Receiving neuron; the site at which chemical communicaion occurs between neurons.
