PSY333H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Stress (Biology), Autonomic Nervous System, Adrenal Medulla
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Animals can turn off their stress- they are only stressed with faced with an immediate stresses and are able to turn it off when the stressful situation is no longer present. Stress: exercise is controlled, predictive, shorter term, in exercise, we burn off the stress hormones, in psychological stress, there"s no physical aspect which is why we are not able to burn off the stress. Animal and human studies: whitehall study for humans- british civil servants; their ranking impacted their health as well. Glucocorticoid are to animals what cortisol is to humans. Cannon: emotion and nervous system activation, fight or flight, autonomic nervous system (ans) Responsible for about 90% of our internal functions; things you don"t think about doing. Finding out that we actually have more control over our ans than we thought; things such as mindfulness and meditation help us control our stress: looked at the way emotions affected your nervous system.