PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Adrenal Gland, Whitehall Study, Circulatory System
5 Feb 2014
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Stress: portrait of a killer (aka killer stress) Since baboons only spend 3 hours of their day gathering food, the rest of the day they are often stressing each other out. There stress is a result from philological and social situations. Adrenalline a form of epinepherine, and glucacortical from adrenal gland. Humans turn on this stress response system as animals for no philological reason and don"t know how to turn it off. The most cunning aggressive males are the top of the hierarchy. Their rank determined their stress level present in the body. Those at the bottom with high stress levels, had high blood pressure and immune and reproductive system doesn"t work as well, brain chemistry is like brains in clinically depressed humans. In humans, jobs with hierachies often have the same effect on humans. Those with little seniority in their job, receive high work loads and as a result have high stress levels.
