PSY 1102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Adrenal Gland, Adrenal Medulla, List Of Internet Phenomena

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1102
• Professor: Najwa Haddad

Document Summary

Health psychology: the study of all the factors that efect and inluence health, also use psychology in applied ways. Walter canon: when we are stress physiological changes take place in our body such as the release of stress hormones epinephrine and. Norepinephrine (adrenaline: prepare for ight or light (stand you ground and ight or run away when a stressful situaion arises) We become venerable to disease such as cancer and heart disease. Adrenal glands (on top of kidneys) release stress hormone. Two systems are acivated when stressed: 1. Cortex (senses the danger/bad news and alerts the body and sends signals. Signals go to the hypothalamus than down the spinal cord than to the sns that acivates the adrenal medulla (epinephrine and norepinephrine: 2. Cortex alerts sending signals to the hypothalamus to the pituitary glands to the adrenal cortex (the outer part of the gland, were the hormones are released)