PS102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Stereotype Threat, Hypothalamus, Pituitary Gland
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Po102 lecture 30: chronic noise: leads to tension and being upset, chronic overcrowding: leads to higher bodily arousal and makes it difficult for people to relax. Sociocultural conditions (type of stressor): ethnic minority groups who face prejudice and discrimination and try to navigate through dominant culture. Stereotype threat is a very real stressor for minority group members and often invisible to those in the majority group. Fight or flight response: series of psychological reactions throughout the sympathetic nervous system and the endocrine system that mobilize an organism to either flight or flee an enemy. Process begins in the brain, brain send messages to endocrine glands and bodily organs along 2 different routes. One is through sympathetic nervous system (ans) and other is through hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis. The fight or flight response is an early evolutionary adaptation used in rushed and shocking situations.
