Lecture in General Psychology The Science of Psychology Psychology is derived from the Greek words psyche and logos‚ meaning soul and study. To the Greek‚ Psychology is simply a study of the soul. Psychology is defined as the scientific study of the behavior of living organisms‚ with special attention to human behavior. It is chiefly concerned with what makes people behave as they do. Psychologists are interested in topics such as learning‚ emotion‚ intelligence‚ heredity and environment
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Psychology - scientific study of behavior and mental processes. The 7 Subfields of Psychology Developmental Psychology - The study of how people grow and change physically cognitively‚ emotionally‚ and socially from the prenatal period through death. Subfields include: child‚ adolescent‚ and life-span psychology. Physiological Psychology - Investigates the biological basis of behavior. Subfield include: neuroscience‚ biological psychology‚ and behavior genetics. Experimental Psychology - Investigates
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GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY I. OVERVIEW ON PSYCHOLOGY 1. William James (1890) – Published Principles of Psychology 2. Wilhelm Wundt (1879) – Published the first Psychological lab in Leipzig 3. Sigmund Freud (1900) – Published Interpretation of Dreams 4. Alfred Biret & Theodore Simon (1905) – Developed the 1st standardized intelligence 5. Ivan Pavlov(1906) – Published the results of his learning experiments with dog tests 6. John Watson (1973) – Wrote his book on behaviorism‚ promoting the importance of
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PSYCHOLOGY • Comes from the root words : “psyche”‚ or mind‚ and “logos”‚ or study (Boring‚ 1950) • The scientific study of behavior and mental processes (Atkinson‚ 2000) • Is an objective and systematic study of how people behave and think • Its’ goals are to describe‚ explain‚ predict‚ and control behavior and mental processes. Psychologists are interested to find answers to questions like the following: ▪ What part of the brain is responsible for language? ▪ What
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increased‚ he was sweating and that his mouth was dry before the raise began. Explain what is happening to his autonomic nervous system (including which division is the most active) and specify exactly how those ANS responses are creating the symptoms noted. What changes do you think are occurring in the digestive and urinary systems at this time? (8 points) In his autonomic nervous system‚ the sympathetic division was the most active before and during the race because it is what prepares your body for
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Porifera: Canal system‚ skeletal structures and their taxonomic value‚ position of porifera in the Animal Kingdom. Coelenterata: Polymorphism; measenteries corals and coral reefs. Platyhelminthes: Parastic adaptations‚ medical importance Nematoda: Medical importance. Anneilda: Coelom‚ metamerism‚ Mollusca: Shell‚ modifications of foot‚ feeding‚ respiration‚ shell fishery‚ Arthropoda: Appendages‚ feeding: respiration‚ larvae. Echinodermata: water Skeleton‚ vascular system‚ larvae. PART -
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Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS) is an autoimmune disorder of rapid-onset muscle weakness as a result of damage to the peripheral nervous system. The peripheral nervous system is the portion of the nervous system that is outside the brain and spinal cord. Autoimmune means an illness that occurs when the body tissues are attacked by its own immune system. In this case they begin attacking nerve cells which communicate with muscles. They attack the myelin sheaths surrounding the axons of the nerve cells
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people with epilepsy loose control over their body through seizures? Well the answer lays in the mechanism of cell communication. Cells communicate in order to perform any activity or work in your system. When an epileptic seizure attack is performed Paracrine and Synaptic signaling in the nervous system in charge of cell communication isn’t working properly. To begin with Paracrine signaling works with a cell that secrets substances by vesicles‚ released to the extracellular fluid where substances
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as a nervous system. Neurons like all cells come in different shapes and sizes but are always made up of a cell body attached to a process which is an extension of a neuron; groups of neurons are called neural system and each system having its own special role and function. Neurons are found all over the body although mainly found in the brain and make up to main nervous systems. The central nervous system which is made up of neurons in the brain and spinal cord‚ and the peripheral nervous system
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Nerve Physiology Cells in the Nervous System * Two types * Nerve cell or neurons * Glial cells or neuroglia Neurons * Functional unit of nervous system * Have anatomically and physiologically specialized for communication and signaling * Neurocrene * 10 billion neurons in nervous system * Once they degenerate they don’t usually go REGENERATION Neuroglia * Nerve glue * Supportive cells * 10x greater of your neurons * Not involve in impulse
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