PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Sympathetic Nervous System, Autonomic Nervous System, Pituitary Gland
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Lazarus and folkman - primary and secondary appraisal. No way to cope, stress continues to have an impacts. Holmes and rahe - social readjustment rating scale to present stressful life events owing to changes in a hierarchal scale. Age differences lead to different handling of stress. Stress is important to an extent since it motivates a person to act on some things. Two key pathways are involved in the responses to stress: autonomic nervous system, hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis, hypothalamus stimulates part of ans (sympathetic nervous system, bodily changes associated with f&f start to take place. Inner part of the adrenal glands release norepinephrine and epinephrine. Hypothalamus releases corticotrophin-releasing factor which stimulates the pituitary. The result of this could be increased access to energy stores or decreased inflammation. Childhood stress has effects on the stress response system. Excluded from a conversation - release of glucocorticoids is affected. Men and women respond differently to stress.
