PSYA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Pituitary Gland, Malingering
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Table 16. 1, p. 627: college undergraduate stress scale (cuss) positive events require readjustment and preparedness that many people find extremely stressful chronic stressors: sources of stress that occur continuously or repeatedly: e. g. city life: noise, traffic, crowding, pollution, and even the threat of violence, e. g. rural areas: isolation, lack of access to health care environmental psychology: the scientific study of environmental effects on behavior and health discrimination causes worry, anxiety and stress > sick. Physical reactions fight or flight response: an emotional and physiological reaction to an emergency that increases readiness for action, by walter cannon figure 16. 1, p. 631: threat fight or flight response, hpa axis (hypothalamus, pituitary, adrenal: hormones released: catecholamines (epinephrine and norepinephrine) increase sympathetic nervous system activation & decrease parasympathetic activation, cortisol: increases concentration of glucose in the blood to make fuel available to the muscles.
