PSYC 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Sympathetic Nervous System, Empirical Relationship, Blood Pressure
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General adaptation syndrome: our stress response system defends, then fatigues. Yerkes-dodson law: an empirical relationship between arousal and performance, performance increases with physiological or mental arousal, but only up to a point, when levels of arousal become too high, performance decreases, inverted u-shaped relation. Stress as a transaction: stress is a subjective experience. Physiological reactions: constant stress = multiple poor health outcomes, fight-or-flight response: physical and physiological response, freeze-or-hide response: more passive reaction that may be more adaptive in certain situations, metabolic and health consequences unclear. Type b: type a: psychological and behavioral pattern that is competitive, driven, impatient, hostile, and ambitious, higher risk for chd, type b: psychological and behavioral pattern that is relaxed, calm, and laid back, lower risk for chd. Biopsychosocial perspective: biopsychosocial perspective: view that an illness or medical condition is the product of the interplay or biological, psychological, and social factors, ex.
