PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Ice Storm, Adrenal Gland, Cortisol

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Penelope Kostopoulos

Document Summary

Mindfulness training - type of meditation that controls stress and awareness. There"s a relationship between the amygdala and the years that they"ve spent performing this type of meditation. Stress : psychological and physiological response to a stressor that alters our body"s equilibrium. Depends on what we have as coping mechanisms. We, as humans, experience stress differently and from different stressors. The pregnant women had high levels of maternal cortisol during the ice storm which ended up affecting their babies. Attempting to record stress in a scanner. They found that there"s correlation between stress and areas of the brain that respond to stress. Chronic creates most of the responses, and it"s not as easy to deal with as acute. Srrs : the more life events that act on a person the more response that person gives. List of problems associated with srrs measurements. Small little tasks that could act as stressors. Predictive of our responses to larger situations.