Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 40: Phobia, Virtual Reality, Dsm-5

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

Document Summary

The stress response, psychosomatic disorders, traumatic stress, next time: freud. Stress definition: a pattern of physiological, behavioural, emotional, and cognitive responses to real or imagined stimuli that are perceived as blocking a goal or endangering our well-being. Stressors --> intervening factors -->stress reaction: stressors, catastrophes, life changes, hassles, daily hassles can add up. Cortisol: effects similar to epinephrine, converts protein to glucose, makes fats available for energy, almost every cell in body has a receptor for glucocorticoids - cortisol is much more accessible and. Increased blood flow invasive as the receptors are everywhere - difference between cortisol and epinephrine. Stress results in release of glu(cid:272)o(cid:272)orti(cid:272)oids dire(cid:272)tly suppress the a(cid:272)tion of white (cid:271)lood (cid:272)ells: under stress, high state of arousal, immune system is compromised. If you believe you can cope, you stop the stress reaction. Stressful beliefs cause distress - convince yourself you are not stressed to limit the immune system decline: distress - physically and mentally ill.