PSYC 3170 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Hard Wired, Safe Sex, Attention
2 Feb 2013
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Stressors: examples, traffic (stress of being late, exams, seeing accidents on the side of the road, university life, the holmes and rahe stress scale. Stressors: catastrophes, major life events, chronic stressful circumstances. Chronic stress: number one stressful event is the death of a spouse. Need to identify colour quickly: had to prepare for a speech on the spot. Chronic stress experiment- frankenhaeuser, 1989: subjects- 30 female and 30 male workers in managerial or clerical jobs, outcome: blood pressure, heart rate, and catecholamine (norepinephrine) measured throughout workday and non-workday. Sometimes it goes away after wards very suddenly and sometimes it takes a long way. When you are stressed you require more energy. Energy needed in muscles, heart and brain, not needed as much in skin though. Hanz selye"s general adaptation syndrome-associated with stress research: refer to ppt, how the fight or flight response relates to real events people encounter, does not matter if it is actually threatening or not.
