PSYC 344 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Natural Killer Cell, Cortisol, Eventing

• School: University of Maryland
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 344
• Professor: Rachel VanDaalan

Document Summary

Positive and negative events can be stressful. Traumatic events in childhood linked to mental and physical health difficulties in adulthood. Caring for another person can be stressful/overwhelming! Seek social support in times of stress. Lower estrogen lower cortisol, blunted hpa activity. Men tend to lean more towards fight or flight. Stress response: activates sympathetic nervous system, secretes epinephrine and norepinephrine, hpa axis stimulated secretes crh to tell pituitary gland to secrete acth, adrenal glands secrete glucocorticoids (ex. cortisol) peaks 30 min after. Catecholamine- inc sensitivity of peripheral blood vessels. Hypercortisolism (cushing"s syndrome) - too much cortisol. Lecture 9/22: stress & mind-body connection part 2. Models of stress: selye"s general adaptation syndrome. Selye"s rat experiment t: stage 1: alarm, stage 2: resistance, stage 2: exhaustion, transactional model (lazarus and folkman) Stress is a transaction btw stimuli and responses (not separate) Impact of stress depends on perception of stress. Is my strategy of handling it working: diathesis-stress model.