PSY 1102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Adrenal Medulla, Pituitary Gland, Natural Killer Cell

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1102
• Professor: Najwa Haddad

Document Summary

Scientific study of all the factors the influence and effect health. The use of psychological principles in an applied way. Stress is one of the aspects studied: stress and illness. We stress out because we perceive a situation to be threatening toxic and beyond our ability to deal with it: a. 2 the stress response system. Was one of the first to study. Conclusion: when we"re stressed out certain physiological changes occur in our body: ex. Norepinephrine: prepare our bodies to undergo a flight or fight situation (high b. p, high h. r. ) By pure chance he did over 40 years of stress research. According to selye, our body responds with general adaptation. Syndrome (gas: gas consists of 3 phases, alarm reaction (gang into flight or fight, resistance body will do whatever it takes to continue. Vulnerable to infections: exhaustion body can"t fight anymore. Vulnerable to disease (e. g. cancer, heart disease, death)