Okay I'm not trying to be a dork or anything, but my bio psyc class is soooo cool! We learn stuff relating to our lives every day and it's alway stuff that I had no idea about but find interesting. On his syllabus he wrote "This will be the most exciting class of your college career" and it is so far. We watched a clip from the Animaniacs in class today too.
A few examples from class: Apparently watching a scary movie will make people more sexually aroused. Why? Because during the scary movie people get nervous, and blood starts flowing away from our sexual organs and into our heart and brain. After the movie is done, the blood travels back down.
Also, there is a thing in our brains called the amyglada. It is responsible for our need to fight. Normally the cortex of the brain stops people from being aggressive, but when a person gets drunk, the properties of the cortex are reduced the the properties of the amyglada are increased, leading to a person wanting to fight more when they are drunk.
Last thing: heroin gets converted to morphine once it's in the brain.
Sorry I know this is the dorkiest blog ever, but it's MY blog so you have to deal with it.
A few examples from class: Apparently watching a scary movie will make people more sexually aroused. Why? Because during the scary movie people get nervous, and blood starts flowing away from our sexual organs and into our heart and brain. After the movie is done, the blood travels back down.
Also, there is a thing in our brains called the amyglada. It is responsible for our need to fight. Normally the cortex of the brain stops people from being aggressive, but when a person gets drunk, the properties of the cortex are reduced the the properties of the amyglada are increased, leading to a person wanting to fight more when they are drunk.
Last thing: heroin gets converted to morphine once it's in the brain.
Sorry I know this is the dorkiest blog ever, but it's MY blog so you have to deal with it.
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