Lecture 1

Question 1

summary of her research

• change in M v F eye use for social stimuli regardless of stress?
• M & F left eye use is more or less in for novel enviro?
• F more or less lateralized when stressed?

Answer 1

• no difference
• more
• more

Question 2

define stress

Answer 2

• importance attached to thing
• physical pressure, pull, force exerted on one thing by another
• physical factor ie. mental state, that distrubs body’s normal state of functioning.

Question 3

Chess master during game & metabolic demands

Answer 3

same metabolic demands as person running race. same physical responses.

Question 4

define stress physiology

Answer 4

how the body responds to stressful events. biological and psychological effects of stress

Question 5

define homeostasis

Answer 5

body has ideal level for many components and want to keep all components in balance

Question 6

define stressor

Answer 6

anything in outside world, or anticipation of that thing that knocks the body out of homeostatic balance.

Question 7

define stress response

Answer 7

what the body does to re-esablish homeostasis

Question 8

Hans Selye - known as?
studied effects of what?
findings?
3 tissue changes

Answer 8

• father of stress research
  studied effects of ovarian extract.
  found both control & experimental had same result, prob bc they were stressed with how they were handled
• peptic ulcers, enlarged adrenal glands, shrunken immune tissue.

Question 9

body response to broad range of stressores?

Answer 9

similar set of responses to broad range of stressors

Question 10

define allostasis

Answer 10

regulate to ideal set point through various mechanisms

Question 11

the acute stress response 
- adapted for -- action?
- mobilizes ?
- increase ? cardiovascular ties. 
reproduction?
immunity?
pain?
memory?

Answer 11

• adapted for muscle action
• mobilizes energy from storage
• increase heart rate, blood pressure, breathing rate.
• slow digestion
• halted reproduction
• immunity inhibited
• stress-induced analgesia
• certain memory and senses improve. others inhibited

Question 12

define chronic stress

Answer 12

activates stress response way longer than it was developed to be on for.

Question 13

selye’s 3 stages of the stress response

Answer 13

1. alarm - notice youve been pushed out of allostatic balance
2. adaptation/resistance: stress response kicks in to try to bring you back to balance
3. exhaustion: chronic stress kicks in. activated for too long.

Question 14

how you get sick from chronic stress?

Answer 14

get sick bc symptoms important for basic bodily function are inhibited when dealing with stress.

Question 15

define allostatic load

Answer 15

wear and tear from pushing the body in and out of balance.

Question 16

two punch lines for the course.

Answer 16

1. the stress response is active for short term emergencies. cant turn on = bad
2. maladaptive response when chronically turned on, or turn itself off.