PSYC 1032 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Cortisol, Cognitive Load, Trier Social Stress Test
26 May 2017
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Certain stressors you can"t talk yourself out of. Long-term effects stressed state over days, weeks, months: your immune system is activiated in response to stress (preparation for likely injury), but prolonged stress weakens the immune response. Why people get sick right after finals: prolonged early-life stress increases the risk of a wide range of disease in adulthood. Disparities in socioeconomic stressors explain much of the difference in health outcomes b/w african americans and white americans. Traumatic childhoods or people in poverty: prolonged exposure to cortisol is also toxic to cells in the hippocampus, leading to declines in memory. Inverted u-shaped relationship b/w stress and memory formation. Stress good for memory formation in the short term: given measurable long-term effects of early life stress on cognitive and health outcomes in adolescence and adulthood, and obvious differences in stressors as a function of economic disparity.
