PSYC 102 Lecture 13: 14 Feb 2019 - Stress
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E. g. death, marriage, divorce, loss of job. Chronic stress is bad for your health. Heart disease is #1 cause of death (27%) Work stress -> 50% increase of cardiovascular disease. Perceived stress is linked to shortening telomeres and early aging. It is important that i do well in this class". I don"t have enough time to study for the time. Demands are low & resources are irrelevant. Demands are low & resources are high. Biopsychosocial model of threat & challenge (blascovich & tomaka, 1994) He tried to extract sexual hormone from ovaries with thought that he was discovering a new sex hormone that hadn"t been discovered before. Their adrenal glands were getting enlarged and he believed he found a new effect on the rodents systems. He eventually discovered it was the stress of the huge needle that induced physiological stress on the rodents (rats) Sympathetic-adrenomedullary (sam) axis (immediate response) hypothalamic-pituitary adrenal (hpa) axis (sustained response)
