PSYC 341 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Acute Stress Reaction, Natural Killer Cell
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Chapter 5: factors that make people more stress sensitive and the characteristics of stressors that make them hardest to cope with. When challenges to our physical or emotional well-being excess our coping abilities we experience stress, can be positive/negative. The gene s/s makes you more sensitive, past experience of stress. People who are optimistic, have higher self-esteem, between social support, etc. When we are stressed, the autonomic nervous system responds in variety of ways. The hypothalamus stimulates the sympathetic nervous system and hormones such as adrenaline (epinephrine) and noradrenaline (norepinephrine) are released from the adrenal medulla. These hormones circulate in the bloodstream and prepare the body for fight or flight. Heart rate increased, and the body metabolizes glucose more activities the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal system. A hormone called cortisol releasing hormone is released from the hypothalamus, stimulate the pituitary gland and causing it to secrete.
