BB H 432 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Hans Selye, Circulatory System, Quartile
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Bbh 432 (7): theories of stress: allostatic load. Characteristics of research on stress: both animals and human literature based very disproportionately on males, emphases primarily on catecholamines and corresponding fight or flight responses. Hormonal variation due to menstrual cycle (view slide: lh: luteinizing hormone, fsh: follicle stimulating hormone, estrogen, progesterone: Tend and befriend: tending : caring for offspring; soothing them in times of stress; reduces, befriending : turning to social group, especially other females, for help, biological stress responses in both mother and offspring protection, social support. Cq: __________ is the stress hormone thought to be responsible for the tend and befriend response. Taylor and colleagues theorized that when men are under stress the realse of this hormone _________: oxytocin is not as large as for women. Allostatic load (bruce mcewen 1991: allostatic load : change set-point with conditions, load : wear and tear on body from long term allostasis. Bruce mcewen protective and damaging effects of stress mediators .
