SDS 3482- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 14 pages long!)

• School: University of Florida
• Department: Student Development Services
• Course: SDS 3482
• Professor: Mercedes M Machado

Document Summary

Body"s way of responding to any kind of demand: release chemicals that give energy and strength, combination of a stressor, stress reactivity, and strain. Includes: stimulus, response, whole spectrum of interacting factors, and stimulus-response interaction. Walter cannon: first to describe e ects of acute stress, fight of ight response. Body"s stress reaction that includes quick increase in heart rate, respiration blood pressure, and serum cholesterol; primitive response. Hans selye: studied e ect of long-term/chronic stress, summarized his ndings by proposing a three phase process: general adaptation syndrome, alarm reaction, stage of resistance, stage of exhaustion. Other in uential researchers: simeons: related evolution to psychosomatic disease (20th century concept, wol , leshan, and engel: studied illness, disease, and stress, friedman and rosenman: identi ed relationship between stress and coronary heart disease, simonton: imagery and cancer therapy. Good things to which one has to adapt and that can lead to a stress reaction: ex.