SPM 101 Lecture 8: Journal #8
6 Dec 2017
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Class began with a video of a tennis player and how his behavior aside the court related to stress. Next, everyone is the class listed sources of stress on the board. Some sources of stress that were mentioned were school, work, money and family. Then we talked about the ve categories of stressors and listed some examples of each one. Nished class by discussing some signs of stress. New learning: today i learned all the effects that stress can have on the human body. When experiencing stress, the brain becomes more alert and the stress hormones can sometimes effect memory and cause neurons to die. The heart rate also increases as well as blood pressure. This can result in blood clotting increasing ones chance of a stroke. I learned how important it is to control your stress because the effects are serious. I also learned that there are multiple categories of stress.
