PSY 202- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 49 pages long!)

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 202
• Professor: Stephanie Marion

Document Summary

Psy202 stress, coping & health: psychological factors can affect medical conditions. Approaches to stress: stressors as stimuli, stress as a transaction, stress as a response. Stress as a response: assesses physical and psychological reactions to stress, can be lab-induced or real-world stress, measure large number of outcome variables, including corticosteroids, ex. Body stems responsive to psychosocial variables: the endocrine system, the autonomic nervous system, the immune system. If too prolonged = maladaptive: too much cortisol can affect neurons in the hypothalamus affect memories, corticotrophin releasing factor (crf, the (cid:271)rai(cid:374)"s stress (cid:374)eurotra(cid:374)s(cid:373)itter, released from the hypothalamus (pvn) Autonomic nervous system: the ans consists of two distinct parts, sympathetic branches fight or flight / accelerator, parasympathetic branches calm / breaks, based on nervous conduction. Immune system: body"s defe(cid:374)(cid:272)e syste(cid:373, a network of cells and organs that defend the body against external, disease-causing forces or internal pathogens (antigens) In prolonged stressors, our resistance can break down: can cause physical or psychological damage.