Biological Psychology Final Examination Queries and Answers (Kalat)
Biological Psychology Is the study of the psychological, evolutionally, developmental mechanism of behaviors and experience; Seeks biological explanations of behaviors Neurons cells that receive information and transmit it to other cells; The human brain contains approximately 100 billion individual neurons; 16 billions in Cerebral cortex, 69 billions in Cerebellum, Less than 1 billion in the rest of the brain, and 1 billion in spinal cord - their shape is distinctive compared to other Santiago Ramón y Cajal () In the late 1800s, HE was the first to demonstrate that the individual cells comprising the nervous system remained separate- they did not merge into each other Membrane(plasma membrane) structure that separates the inside of the cell from the outside environment; selectively permeable Nucleus structure that contains the chromosomes; Cell brain Mitochondrion structure that performs metabolic activities; takes in nutrients, breaks them down, and creates energy rich molecules for the cell. - have its own genes
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