PSYC 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Homeostasis, Schizophrenia, Tachycardia
21 Mar 2017
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Why do we study stress: pervasive and normative, universal and widespread concept that everyone deals with, part of the human experience, broad impact on our lives, broad impact on our lives and health. Such as divorce of losing house keys. Biological response to stress: biological response, increased heart rate, sweating, release of corticosteroids (stress hormones) in stress response, general adaptation syndrome: how we adapt to stress, three stages, alarm, resistance, exhaustion. Nervous system: central nervous system, spinal cord, brain, peripheral nervous system, somatic branch, autonomic branch (automatic processes, parasympathetic, sympathetic. Fight or flight (alarm stage of general adaptation syndrome: sympathetic. Fight or flight (alarm stage of general adaptation. Stage 3: exhaustion: energy is depleted following the attempt to repair, no longer able to resist the original stressor, cannot handle new stressors, most susceptible to negative products of stress vulnerable. How do we interpret stress: stress is subjective. Irrelevant: secondary appraisal analysis of the available resources.
