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advantageous to measure the autonomic nervous system (ANS)?

Not susceptible to self-report biases as (2)

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  • These measurements are of automatic and uncontrollable responses so people can not lie about their heart rate or change it
  • This is useful when studying sensitive topics
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Advantageous to measure to autonomic nervous system

Allows for moment-to-moment reactions and therefore (2)

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  • Allows to track for changes in activity
  • Which allows deeper understanding of physiological processes inside the body
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Advantageous of measuring ANS

as may precede conscious awanress (2)

Theory + example (2)

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  • Cannon-Bard Theory of emotion - physiology precedes psychology
  • See bear and heart rate increases and sweat and run and after all that stuff occurs then you feel that you are scared and that’s why you are scared
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Advantageous of measuring ANS

Patterns of cardiovascular activity is linked to vulnerabilities in (2)

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Mental and physical health

Can be used as a risk factor for cause or progression

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Measuring ANS Activity Options (4)

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  • Electrodermal activity (or also known as galvanic skin response)
  • Cardiovascular activity
    • Blood pressure
    • Heart rate
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Electrodermal activity (EDA) measures the response of (2)

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sweat glands

Measures anxiety/stress/arousal

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Electrodermal activity (EDA) measures the response of sweat glands

Mostly densely located in the

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hands and soles of the feet (get very sweaty there)

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EDA measures the response of sweat glands because

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sympathetic activation stimulates sweat glands to overcome a stressor in the environment

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Measure EDA through skin conductance which is measured by

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  • apply sensors to the arm which passes a small electrical current through the skin
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Measuring EDA

Skin conductance assesses

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The resistance to the electrical current to the skin

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Measuring EDA

High and less resistance (2)

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Less resistance = more sweat there and assume more sympathetic activation is going on and more anxious

High resistance = vice versa

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Resistence is the opposite of

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Condutance

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Skin conductance is measured in

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Microsiemens

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The more emotionally aroused an individual is, the more the SCR (skin condutance)

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amount is increased

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Skin conductance is not immediate, it takes

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time

It could be minutes after we stress someone out to see their sweat appear and condutance increase

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Since skin condutance is not immediate

we can examine

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  • “Phases” of change
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Since skin condutance is not immediate

we can examine phases of change and tend to average over large periods of time of skin conductance as…

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  • Conductance changes slowly over longer periods (minutes)
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Recording skin condutance (EDA)

Procedure (2)

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  • Ag/Ag CL (silver) electrodes placed on the fingers or plans (these conductive to electricity)
  • Prepare before applying electrodes by cleaning skin (via water or alcohol) and applying electrolyte gel (containing KCL or NaCL - salt- conductive)
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Recording skin condutance (EDA)

Why apply electrolyte gel to electrode

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Allows for better recording of signal

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Analysing conductance

Cleaning the data with smoothing fitlers as raw data is messy as (2)

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  • Movement artefacts (if you move slightly then causes data to move around and shift)
  • Missing data: Moving too quickly (e.g., sneezes) creates temporarily disconnection of gel and sensors
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Analysing conductance

How to deal with missing data? (2)

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  • Replaces missing data with estimations made by software
  • Use regression-bases algorithms
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Cardiovascular measures

Options (4)

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  • Electrocardiogram (ECG)
  • Respiration
  • Impedance cardiography (ICG)
  • Blood pressure (BP)
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Electrocardiogram (ECG)

The heart produces

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Electrical signals

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Electrocardiogram (ECG)

Electrodes capture the

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depolarisation of ventricles in the heart

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ECG measures the activity of electrical signals in the heart that is represented as (2)
Points on the ECG waveform QRS complex - R point when heart is depolarised after it pushes blood out to the rest of the body
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How to compute heart rate variability
ECG
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What measurements do you get from ECG? - (2)
* Heart rate (amount of R points per minute) * Heart rate variability (average distances between R points) - large distance more advantageous of stress and switching between systems
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Impedance cardiography (ICG) -(3)
Estimate changes in blood flow in the heart * How much blood ejected during each heart beat? * Volume of blood (stroke volume)
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Impedance cardiography (ICG) electrodes placed on torso (2)
Outer sensors send electrical current Inner sensors detect resistance of current
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ICG As blood volume increases
Resistence increases!
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ICG relates to
ECG
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Blood pressure (BP) Systolic blood pressure - (2)
Peak arterial pressure Heart is pushing blood through your system
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Blood pressure (BP) Diastolic blood pressure - (2)
Lowest arterial pressure When the heart stopped beating - heart is refractory period before going to next heart beat
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Systolic and diaolstic blood pressure While often correlated/related, they provide
unique information
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Blood pressure on graph (4)
* Blood pressure increases as blood flows into the aorta of heart * Then max (systolic) pressure reaches at the peak * As the aortic value closes, blood pressure falls as blood flows out of aorta of heart * Then reaches minium (diasoltic) pressure
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Systolic and diastolic - While often correlated, they provided unique information Increased systolic, but not diastolic =
Adaptive stress response
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Systolic blood pressure is how much blood you are pushing out The pressure your blood is
being resistant against
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Systolic pressure = amount of effort (2)
* Heart is beating faster - more effort to push blood through the system and working against the blood vessels * Increase blood pressure as a result
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High systolic blood pressure is more indicative of (3)
Poor health - heart worker harder than rest of the body predicts development of heart disease hypertension (increased arterial pressure) causes wear
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Low systolic blood pressure (3)
* Heart is working cooperatively with your blood pressure * Not much resistance to let blood pass through the system * No pressure build up
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High Systolic blood pressure predicts the development of heart disease Hypertension (increased arterial pressure) causes wear (2)
* If you are constantly working against your blood vessels and pushing blood through restricted passages causes wear and tear and damage heart and blood vessels
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Blood pressure (BP) Mean arterial pressure (MAP)
* Ratio of systolic and diastolic pressure * Often reported instead of diasoltic/systolic pressure * Weighted average of systolic and diastolic pressure * 2 parts diastolic * 1 part systolic
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Blood pressure (BP) Diagram Mean arterial pressure (MAP)
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Blood pressure Total peripheral resistence (4)
* Ratio of blood flow vs restrictions * Capture how much blood we are pushing through our body vs how much resistance there is to that blood flow * A lot of blood through your heart and low resistance = body working adaptively - blood easily pass
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If we believe we can overcome a stressor..
Challenged state (positive stress state)
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Challenged state is where -(3)
* SAM axis is activated for short-term response to the stress * Increased blood output and higher heart rate * Lower blood pressure due to reduced restriction of blood flow (blood easily gets where it needs to go to make you feel relaxed)
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Example of a challenged state (2)
* Well-prepared and studied for an exam * Exam is stressful but felt like you did good
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If we are unsure whether we can overcome a stressor...
Threatened state
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Threatened state (2) Physiologically what happens..?
* SAM axis is engaged (short-term response) as well as the HPA axis (long-term response) * On a physiological level, there is little to no change in blood output due to restriction of arteries that causes high blood pressure.
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Threatened state example - (3)
* Hangover for exam * Show late for exam * Didn't study for exam
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Vick et al. 2017 Challenge and threat states results from (2)
Evaluation of situational demands and personal resources Both influenced by cognitive and affective (moods, feelings)
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Vick et al 2017 Situations in where challenge and threat emerge from is + examples (2)
Situations defined as goal-relevant and task engaging that require cognitive or cognitive-behavioural responses For example, delivering a speech, taking a test
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Challenged vs threat in terms of resources (2)
* Resources are evaluated as equalling or exceeding situational demands, challenge motivation results * When demands are evaluated as outweighing the resources to cope with task then threat mtoviation results
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Vick et al. (2017) Method -(3)
* 141 psychological students - male and female * Individual participants assigned to one of two stereotype threat conditions of gender-biased or gender-fair. * Cardiovascular response was collected continuously during the conditions while they took a quantitative comparison test to test their maths ability
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Vick et al. (2017) Findings (2)
* Women were relatively threatened during a performance when task was characterised as gender-biased whereas men were relatively challenged when they believed gender-differences in performance were expected. * Women were relatively challenged during a performance when the task was characterised as gender-fair, whereas men were relatively threatened when they believed they were taking a non-biased test.
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HRV is a index (indicator) of vagal tone and reflects the balance between
parasympathetic and sympathetic.
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**Sympathetic nervous system** activation **accelerates heart rate (HR) and decrease HRV,** whereas **parasympathetic nervous system decelerates HR and**
increases HRV.
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What cardiovascular measurements did Vick et al (2017) obtained?
impedance cardiography, electro-cardiography and continuous blood pressure equipment

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