AP Psychology Biological Bases

part of autonomic nervous, calms you down

• Parasympathetic 
• sympathetic 

inside of the neuron is negatively charged relative to the outside of membrane

• polarization
• depolarization

chemical messager, released into the bloodstream, slow but long lasting

• neurotransmitter
• hormones

electric charge on the inside and the outside of the cell membrane and is when the cell becomes positively charged

• polarization
• depolarization

regulates blood sugar, secreting insulin

• pancrease
• gall bladder

electrical charged particles found both inside and outside neuron 

• ion
• vessicles
• synapes

sending end of a neuron

• dendrites
• axon terminals

receiving end of a neuron

• dendrites
• synapatics

neurotransmitter that promotes (gas pedal) action potentials. Arousing or accelerating physiological

• excitatory
• inhibitory

Soma

• cell body
• vessicles