PSY 1001 Chapter 3: Biological Psychology

• School: Temple University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1001
• Professor: Robert L.Fauber

Document Summary

Glial cells: calls in the nervous system that plays a role in the formation of myelin and the blood-brain barrier, responds to injury, remove debris, and enhances learning and memory and memory. Threshold: membrane potential necessary to trigger an action potential. Gaba inhibits neurons and dampens neural activity plays critical roles in learning, memory, and sleep. Broca"s area: language area in the prefrontal cortex that helps to control speech production production named after. French surgeon. he discover ed that the area plays a key role in language producti on. he realized that his patients that had trouble generate language had this area damage d. Reticular activating system (ras): brain area that plays a key role in arousal connects with the forebrain and cerebral cortex and cerebral cortex damage to the ras can result in a coma. Ight response parasympathetic nervous system: division of autonomic nervous system that controls rest and digestion.