PSYC 3P75 Lecture Notes - Gust Co. Ltd., Opioid, Hypertension

• School: Brock University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3P75
• Professor: D Molnar

Document Summary

Tend: tending to offspring; caretaking behaviors of someone who is close to you. Befriend: affiliation motive; seeking social support from others for yourself (protection/support) We affiliate with others when we are stressed. Dopamine gets released when we feel good. Argues because we affiliate with each others (natural response) there must be a evolutionary purpose for it; underlying circuitry in our brains. Oxytocin goes up when things are not going well in social relationships; promotes you to seek relationships ; goes down when satisfied. Opiods- reduces pain ; more physical pain when relationship is not going well (low opiods: promotes affiliative efforts ( start seeking relationships) can lead to , positive social contacts: feel validated, successful establishment of bonds with others. Reduction in stress: decrease in sns & hpa axis (cortisol) Or: negative social contacts: experience rejection, affiliative needs are not met leads to, exacerbation of stress: increase in stress levels ; increase in sns & hpa axis (cortisol)