PSYC 3140 Lecture : Abnormal Psych Ch 6

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3140
• Professor: Joel Goldberg

Document Summary

Cousins: the first person to determine that laughter and +ve emotion can be used to speed physiological and psychological problems. Stress: is an experience that perceives to endanger our physical or psychological well-being rxn to the stress: a stressor: an event that causes the stress; stress response is ones. If an event is uncontrollable, unpredictability (people felt they can never relax in an unpredictable event; known as safety signal hypothesis) and. Any change which requires a readjustment (+ve or ve), can elicit more stress. The hypothalamus creates activations in the autonomic nervous system and the adrenal-cortical system, when we face a stressor. The autonomic nervous system (sympathetic system) increases heart rate and elevates blood pressure; release norepinephrine. Adrenal-cortical system: releases corticotropin release factor, which then releases. Acth (the bodies major stress hormone); acth then releases cortisol. The fight or flight response cannot work on stressors which are chronic, and chronic stressors can be very damaging to the body.