PSY 3006 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Walter Bradford Cannon, Stressor, Krypto
31 Oct 2018
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Fight or flight, became fascinated with reports of sorcery, black magic,and voodoo causing death. Victims believed that the threat was fatal and no escape was possible. Cannon proposed that fear and emotional strain produced a lasting and intense action of the sympathico-adrenal symptom. How uncontrollable stress can lead to sudden death (look at pic in book) (typically the person already has unrecognizable heart disease) Properties of stressors that impact their efficacy. Not all stressors are the same: weiss 1970. Each tail shock was preceded by a tone for the predicted study. Note: groups 2 and 3 get the same amount of shocks, but the difference is the predictability of the shocks. Results: stress is linked to gastrointestinal lesions. Control group: some showed lesions, but a very small percentage and the lesions were small. Unpredictable: 100% of the rats showed lesions and they were the. Subject 1: executive monkey (the position of making a lot of decisions is stressful af)
