PSYC 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Coronary Artery Disease, Psychoneuroimmunology, Stress (Biology)
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Stress the process by which we perceive and respond to certain events, stressors, that we appraise as threatening or challenging. Stressors any stimulus that tends to create an imbalance in the internal environment. Catastrophes unpredictable, large-scale events (earthquakes, hurricanes, Significant life changes long-term studies indicate that people recently. Daily hassles inability to pay bills, poor health, discrimination all take a toll on. Stages of general adaptation syndrome selye"s concept of body adaptive response to widowed, fired, or divorced are more disease prone mental health and well-being wildfires) stress in three stages. Sympathetic nervous system activates; heart rate increases; blood races; faintness of shock. Your body is ready to fight back; adrenal glands pump stress hormones. Caused by constant stress; your reserves begin to run out; prolonged stress. Tend and befriend stress response under stress, people (typically women) often provide can kill you support to others (tend) and bond/seek support from others (befriend)
