Women's Studies 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Clifford Whittingham Beers, Survivor Guilt, James W. Pennebaker
9 Dec 2017
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Stress: patter of physiological, behavioural, emotional and cognitive response to real or imagined stem that are perceived as blocking a goal or endangering our wellbeing. Intervening factors: appraisal (lazarous), perceived control, personality, social support (do you have a friend, someone you are comfortable with talking too, normally a parent), coping, how to get rid of stress and cope with it. Stress reactions: physiological response > emotional response > behavioural response, all change each other. > adrenal medulla > epinephrine: 2. signal to hypothalamus > anterior pituitary gland > adrenal cortex > glucocorticoids (cortisol, cortisol: Almost every cell in the body has receptor for glucocorticoids: receptors almost everywhere. Is much more invasive than epinephrine, more robust. Stress result in release of glucocorticoids directly suppress the action of white blood cells: support. Rats faced with inescapable shock showed a decrease in lymphocyte production: less white blood cells. Husbands show decreases immune response after wife"s death.
