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Unit 2 AP Psychology

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biological psychologists

the scientific study of the links between biological and psychological processes.

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a nerve cell; the basic building block of the nervous system.

Image: neuron

the bushy, branching extensions of a neuron that receive messages and conduct impulses toward the cell body.

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the neuron extension that passes and electrical messages through its branches to other neurons or to muscles or glands.

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a layer of fatty tissue segmentally encasing the fibers of many neurons; enables vastly greater transmission speed of neural impulses as the impulse hops from one node to the next.

Image: myelin sheath

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