PSY 368 Lecture 5: Lecture 5 - General Adaptation Syndrome, Psychobiology and the Trauma Response

• School: University of Arizona
• Department: Psychology Main
• Course: PSY 368
• Professor: Adam Lazarewicz

Document Summary

Lecture outline #5: general adaptation syndrome, psychobiology & the trauma response. Typically: produce overwhelmed feelings, produce opposing tendencies (e. g. wanting to study but also wanting to put it off, feel uncontrollable. Studied endocrinology injected rats with extracts from various organs. General adaptation syndrome organ), ulcers new hormone?: post-injection symptoms: swelling of adrenal glands, atrophy of thymus (immune system, same symptoms with an injected irritant not a new hormone so what"s happening, later coined the term (cid:498)stress(cid:499) Selye believed that (cid:498)noxious agents(cid:499) caused negative physical reactions. General adaptation syndrome (gas): 3 stages in adaptation response to stressors: alarm: awareness of stressor fight-or-flight response (cid:498)sock(cid:499) and (cid:498)antishock(cid:499) phases. Problem: fight-or-flight takes its tol, difficult to maintain: resistance: if stressor persists, cortisol extended fight-or-flight response. More vulnerable to physical (e. g. illness) and psychological (e. g. More vulnerable to physical (e. g. illness) and psychological (e. g. impatience, irritability, inattention, etc. ) consequences: exhaustion: depleted resources highly vulnerable to attention deficits, irritability, illness and diseases, etc.