NEUR 3403 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Staccato
23 Nov 2016
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An unpleasant stimulus, causes an adaptive nature. When exposed to stressful event, brain makes a primary appraisal (may be unconscious) Psychological stressors: psychogenic stressors: of psychological origin. Systemic stressor immune system acts like sensor and then carries signal to brain relevance of experiment is inversely related to the rigour. Ca(cid:374)"t really (cid:373)a(cid:374)ipulate stressors: left with naturalistic stressors: those that occur naturally (ex. Earthquake in california, many people died from cardiac disease due to stress. People who already had an affinity towards cardiac disease. Give people questionnaire: correlations between stressors and illnesses. Not causation: self-report: based on individuals appraisal, retrospective bias, holmes and paykel. Created questionnaire that allowed people to evaluate stressors. Which of the following has happened to individuals in a certain time frame. Based o(cid:374) peoples" su(cid:271)je(cid:272)tive appraisal ex. People were asked to rate the stress of losing a child, but not everyone will have experienced this stressor.
