PSYC 4P56 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Monoamine Oxidase A, Microcephaly, Birth Weight
9 Feb 2015
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Nature-nurture interactions in brain growth: growing up stressed. Engineering approach: any stimuli that disrupt an organism"s homeostatic state. Psychological approach: body"s response or reaction to a real or imagined threat, event or change. Psychology approach: the psycophysiological consequence of any event challenging the organism"s capacity to cope. Stress = general concept describing a load on a system, usual external (humans is internal) Stressor: a specific problem, issue challenge, personal conflict (external/internal) Stress reaction: a specific individual response to a given stressor (psychological, behavioural, emotional, cognitive, signs and symptoms) Strain: the prolonged impact of the stressor on the system (overload), fatigue, precursor to illness (also a person"s physiological and psychological response to a stressor) Eustress vs. distress (good stress vs. bad stress: eustress motivating, positive stress, distress negative events, traumas; hinders more than helps. Stress isn"t always bad no stress creates boredom.
