PSY340H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Hans Selye, Startle Response, Psychoneuroimmunology
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Little stressors that accumulate over time can have the same response as a death in the family: selye outlined a series of biological responses, called the general adaptation syndrome (gas) that occur as the body deals with stressors. If the chemicals continue being released over a long period of time, your body cannot handle the amount being created body will undergo exhaustion. Immune system is affected by how you think and feel: blood brain barrier no immune system functioning in the cns. African americans than among other americans and africans: red blood cells deliver oxygen to different parts of the body. Inconsistent results of various type a studies led some researchers to consider that perhaps some of the (cid:272)hara(cid:272)teristi(cid:272)s that (cid:373)ake up t(cid:455)pe a (cid:271)eha(cid:448)iour are related to heart disease (cid:449)hile others are(cid:374)"t. If (cid:455)ou are a produ(cid:272)ti(cid:448)e t(cid:455)pe a, (cid:455)ou (cid:373)ight (cid:374)ot ha(cid:448)e a heart atta(cid:272)k (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause (cid:455)ou"re (cid:271)ei(cid:374)g re(cid:449)arded = stress level is not too high.
