Summary: The Nervous System

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  • Study of the links between out biology and our behavior

    Biological Psychology
  • Neurons transmit messages when

    stimulated by our senses
    triggered by chemical signals from neighboring neurons
  • How neurons transmit messages

    Action potential
  • Action Potential travels at speeds from __

    2 to 200 mph
  • Types of electrical impulses

    Excitatory Signals
     Inhibitory Signals
  • Increasing the Excitatory Signal simulation does not increase the __ of the signal

    intensity
  • __ is the minimum level of stimulation needed to trigger an action potential

    Threshold
  • A strong signal does not change the __

    reaction speed
  • Sir Charles Sherrington was a __ in __

    British Physiologist in 1857
  • Sherrington was looking into why the travel time of __ were slow

    neural impulses
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