KINESIOL 2G03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Stroop Effect, Vasodilation, Fear Conditioning
15 Apr 2016
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Why do some people thrive under stress: eg. Daredevil nik: our beliefs about the impact of stress on our health maters, high stress levels increased mortality but only in those who believe that stress has a large harmful efect on health. The impact of stress on the heart and the mind depends on how we think about the stress response: thinking posiively about the stress response. Beter cogniive performance: physiological factors can have a powerful impact on physiological factors. Immune system, anxious, fear condiioning, ptsd, food aversion. Harness the stress and use it to their advantage. 29 000 individuals rated: level of stress over past year (low, moderate, high amounts of stress, how much they believe that stress inluenced their health (small, medium, large efect on health) Looked at the individuals who had high stress categorized as those who reported that it had a small, medium or large efect on health.
