Stress

Question 1

stress

Answer 1

percieved inability to handle demands placed on you

Question 2

stress makes you

Answer 2

stupid, McEwan

Question 3

GAS=ARE

Answer 3

general adaptaion syndromes=alarm, resistance, exhaustion

Question 4

homeostasis

Answer 4

body’s tendency to return to normal

Question 5

stressor

Answer 5

anything that disrupts homeostasis

Question 6

stress response

Answer 6

anything designed to achieve homeostasis

Question 7

acute stressor

Answer 7

real, tangible threat

Question 8

anticipatory stressor

Answer 8

worried about future

humans only

Question 9

what happens in stress response?

Answer 9

adrenaline release, non-essential shuts down, pupils dilate, hippocampus more active

Question 10

telomeres

Answer 10

keep ends of chromosomes from fraying

stress=shortened

Question 11

oxytocin

Answer 11

love

female stress response

Question 12

hormones of stress response

Answer 12

epinephrine, really fast, 80%
norepinephrine, pretty fast, 20%
glucocorticoids, last, backs up other tow/lends support after. returns body to homeostasis

Question 13

HPA axis

Answer 13

hypothalamus, pituitary gland, adrenal gland

h secretes CRH, triggers p to release ACTH, reaches blood stream and triggers glucocorticoids

Question 14

Peripheral Nervous System (PNS)

Answer 14

somatic and autonomic

Question 15

somatic nervous system

Answer 15

voluntary, external

Question 16

autonomic nervous system

Answer 16

involuntary, internal

sympathetic and parasypathetic (work in opposition for homeostasis)

Question 17

sympathetic nervous system

Answer 17

stress response

Question 18

parasympathetic

Answer 18

relaxation

Question 19

acute stress

Answer 19

immediate

Question 20

chronic stress

Answer 20

long term

Question 21

learned helplessness

Answer 21

belief that one’s actions don’t matter

Question 22

SRRS

Answer 22

Holmes and Rahe, stress scale