Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Survivor Guilt, Exposure Therapy, Panic Disorder

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

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Stress: a pattern of physiological, behavioral, emotional, and cognitive responses to real or imagined stimuli that are perceived as blocking a goal or endangering our well-being. Intervening factor: appraisal, perceived control, personality, social support, coping: stressors: catastrophes, live changes, hassles. 2: stress reaction: physiological, emotional, behavioural, sympathetic ns, adrenal medulla, epinephrine, anterior pituitary, adrenal cortex, glucocorticoids (cortisol) Almost every cell in body has receptor for glucocorticoids. Stress can suppress the immune system, making the person more vulnerable. Stress results in release of glucocorticoids directly suppress the action of wbc. Disorders with primarily physical symptoms but caused or maintained by psychological factors: e. g. hypertension, hypertension in air traffic controllers increase after age 37 for high stress individuals. Note: groups 2 and 3 are yoked they receive exactly the same number of shocks. Group 2 has shorter ulcers than group 3. Group 2: signalled shock proceeded by warning, but no escape possible. Signalled shock group had much less length of ulceration.