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Area of Study 1: How does the nervous system enable psychological functioning?
Nervous system functioning
- the roles of different divisions of the nervous system (central and peripheral nervous systems and their associated sub-divisions) in responding to, and integrating and coordinating with, sensory stimuli received by the body
- the distinction between conscious and unconscious responses by the nervous system to sensory stimuli, including the role of the spinal reflex
- the role of the neuron (dendrites, axon, myelin and axon terminals) as the primary cell involved in the reception and transmission of information across the synapse (excluding details related to signal transduction)
- the role of neurotransmitters in the transmission of neural information between neurons (lock-and-key process) to produce excitatory effects (as ...
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