Stress Chapter Flashcards
Who is Martin Seligman?
He conducted experiments in 1960s with dogs being placed in chambers receiving electric shocks from which they couldn’t escape.
- he coined the term “learned helplessness”
- Human concentration camps used similar concept “Gammel”
Who is Jeansok Kim/David Diamond?
They came up with a three part definition for the word stress.
-Measurable physiological response: must be measurable by someone else
-A desire to avoid the situation: must be perceived as aversive
-A loss of control: the person must not feel in control of the stressor
The Cardiovascular System
-Acute stress can boost cardiovascular performance
- Too much adrenaline can scar the insides of your blood vessels
- People that experience chronic stress have a higher risk of heart attacks and strokes
- Heart attacks are caused by the scars that turn into plague blocking the vessels
Lisa Nowark
-Lethal combat pilot
-Government spent millions of dollars training her to be an astronaut
- Had months of built up stress leading to one of her scheduled missions
- she then drove from Houston to Orlando with weapons to kidnap a woman she saw as a threat
Memory & Problem Solving
Hippocampus is the fortress of human memory
- Stress hurts declarative memory and executive function
- on tests for declarative memory, study’s show adults with high levels of stress performed 50 percent worse than adults with low levels
Stress
- some types of stress hurt learning while others boost learning
- There is no physiological response capable of telling a scientist when someone is experiencing stress
Stress pt. 2
-We are only built for stress that lasts seconds
- Flight or Fight responses come from your brain’s hypothalamus
- when your sensory detects stress, the hypothalamus signals your adrenal glands to release adrenaline into your blood stream
- Cortisol: wipes out unpleasant aspects of stress, returning us to normal
UCLA Drama Department
Trained in method acting in which if a screen calls for you to be sacred you would think of something frightening, then recite the lines remembering that memory. Vise Versa for happy memories.
- Happy group: had very healthy immune systems
- Sad group: had a huge decrease in immune responsiveness
