Physiologic response to stress
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Walter Cannon described this as the "fight-or-flight response", which is our physiological response to stress. McNerney (1974) stated that "stress is your body's physical, mental and chemical reactions to circumstances that frighten, exercise, confuse, endanger or irritate you." (p.2)
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Stress: Stress is a physiological response to threatening or challengingevents in the environment. Stress prepares body for “fight” or “flight” coping. Events can be internal (thoughts) or external (environmental occurrences). Stress can trigger disease and illness due to the effect on the body.
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Biological Psychology – Stress Revision Questions. Stress as a bodily response. The body’s response to stress, including the hypothalamic- pituitary-adrenal system (HPA) and the sympathomedullary pathway (SAM) 1. Use the phrases below to complete the diagram, so that it shows the role of the hypothalamus in the body’s response to stress ...
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Anxiety is a normal physiologic response when the body is or thought to be at risk (Castillo et al., 2016). Depression is defined as prolonged sadness and decreased attraction to typically enjoyable activities whereas post-traumatic stress is traumatic-event-related anxiety or persistent exposure to traumatic situations (Castillo et al., 2016).
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Nature of Stress . Stress – Physiological response of an individual to a stressor . Stress responses vary from person to person . The Stress Response and the General Adaptation Syndrome . Phase 1 – Alarm response (sympathetic nervous system arousal) Phase 2 – State of resistance (mobilized coping and action) Phase 3 – State of ...
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1. Stress: the mental, emotional, and physiologic response of the body to any situation that is new, threatening, frightening or exciting. 2. Stress Response: * the fight/flight mechanism prepares a person to . take action when the hypothalamus activates the Sympathetic nervous system. Pituitary Gland releases cathecholimines from the adrenal ...
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– unpleasant state of apprehension or fear, accompanied by a physiologic state of ANS arousal. Normal – adaptive psychological and physiological response to stressful/threatening situation. Abnormal – maladaptive response to real or imagined stress; symptoms interfere with adaptation: Response disproportionate . to stress or threat
[DOC File]Stress, Coping and Adaptation
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I. Review of the Stress Response. A. Generalized/Systemic complex response to a change (stressor) 1. Body maintains homeostasis. 2. quick response. 3. physiologic response same to different stressors. 4. intensity/effect may vary. B. Stressor. 1. factor creating change in body or environment. 2. physical or psychological or combination. 3. real ...
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[DOC File]11/1/07 Anxiety Disorders
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The hormones of adrenalin and cortisol, released during stress, bathe the areas of the brain involved in memory and response to stress (Bremner, 2002). Although these hormones mobilize brain systems critical to survival in crisis, excessive or repetitive stress can lead to long-term changes in the brain systems of memory and the stress response ...
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