1. Neuroscience and Behavior
PSYCHOLOGY
Chapter 3
Neuroscience and Behavior

2. information processing and to other interneurons
are
information processing
nerve cells
INTERNEURONS
connect sensory, motor,
and to other interneurons

3. AXON, DENDRITE, SYNAPSE
AXON sends (acts on)
DENTRITE receives (“tree”)
SYNAPSE: junction where
axons and dendrites
connect

4. The Synapse

5. ACTION POTENTIAL
ALL OR NOTHING FIRING

6. NEUROTRANSMITTER FUNCTION
AGONISTS enhance or mimic ANTAGONISTS inhibit or block

8. NERVOUS SYSTEM CENTRAL (CNS) AUTONOMIC (ANS) LIMBIC
BRAIN and SPINAL CORD
AUTONOMIC (ANS)
SYMPATHETIC; PARASYMPATHETIC
LIMBIC
EMOTION, MOTIVATION, LEARNING,
and MEMORY

9. Sympathetic and parasympathetic systems

10. Cerebral cortex and brain lobes

11. The case of Phineas Gage