PSY 358 Lecture 3: Hormones
4 Feb 2019
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Form of social stress when you"re feeling judged. Cyberball - you"re playing catch with two people on a computer, but after a while the. Induce stress in participants avatars just start playing with each other and cut you out of it; social isolation. Amount of activity is correlated with immune response to social exclusion. Power of food - how much do you crave something if you see a picture, do your ghrelin and appetite actually go up in response. Theory of mind - measure of empathy; do you understand what someone else is going through, feeling. Ernest starling coined the term hormone, which means i excite . Hormones are substances in the bloodstream that make something happen. Must be potent because they are released into the bloodstream. Only one type of receptor for each hormone, whereas dopamine and serotonin have multiple receptors. Steroid receptors are in the nucleus and on the surface. Start off as big chains of amino acids.
