HE100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Alcoholism, Time Management, Sleep Deprivation
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Stressor: physical, social, mental event/ condiion: forces our mind or body to react or adjust. Stressors are the cause; stress is the efect. Two types of stress based on percepion: eustress: posiive stress. Perceived as good potenial to result in posiive change. Geing married, staring a career, new home: distress: negaive stress. Perceived as bad potenial to result in negaive charge. Financial problems, illness, loss of a loved one. Body does no disinguish between eustress and distress. Stress: disease of prolonged arousal : cause the body to wear down over ime allostaic load . Early inding: highly stressed individuals: increased risk of cvd, increased suscepibility to colds. Homeostasis: state of physical, mental balance in which all of the body"s systems funcion smoothly: physiological and psychological equilibrium. Perceived stress adapive response: atempt to restore homeostasis. Alarm phase: homeostasis is disrupted, sympatheic nervous system (sns) prepares for ight or light . Increases heart rate, respiraion, blood sugar, dilates pupils.
