PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Autonomic Nervous System, Peripheral Nervous System, Central Nervous System

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jordan Poppenk

Document Summary

Burying people in very specific ways during ancient roman times. Putting different parts of the body in different jars based on importance. Aristotle: noticed that the brain of humans was much larger then animals which explained our intellectual superiority. The nervous system: the brain is the organ that control all other organs, system is made from a combination of subsystems. Communicates with all sensory organs and muscles, except those of the head. Pns includes cranial nerves and spinal nerves, which transmit sensory information from the body to the cns and transmit motor and other commands in the other direction. From the cns to the muscles, glands, and internal organs. Ans, component of the pns that receives information from and sends commands to the heart and other organs. Pns is divided into skeletal and autonomic portions. Skeletal portion controls the various muscles relaying motor commands from the brain. Autonomic nervous system controls involuntary muscles (ie. heart, diaphragm) and other internal organs.