PSYC 2000 Chapter : Psych
Document Summary
A branch of psychology concerned with the links between biology and behavior. A popular but ill-fated theory that claimed bumps on the skull could reveal our mental abilities and our character traits. Study of how biological, psychological, and social-cultural systems work and interact. A nerve cell; the basic building block of the nervous system. Neurons that carry incoming information from the sensory receptors to the brain and spinal cord. Neurons that carry outgoing information from the bran and spinal cord to the muscles and glands. Neurons within the brain and spinal cord that communicate internally and intervene between the sensory outputs and motor outputs. The bushy, branching extensions of a neuron that receive messages and conduct impulses toward the cell body. The axon and dendrite of a neuron. The extensions of a neuron, ending in branching terminal fibers, through which message pass to other neurons or to muscles or glands.
