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| Chronic stressors, negative affectivity, environmental (short term) stressors |
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| A state of threatened homeostasis |
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| What is responsible for the imbalance |
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| The body's response to the imbalance |
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| Seyle's General Adaptation Syndrome |
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| Alarm, resistance, & exhaustion phases |
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| Body mobilized to respond to threat |
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| Reestablishment of homeostasis |
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| Prolonged stress causes body's resistance to collapse; result of prolonged production of stress chemicals |
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| endocrine & neural changes are adaptive short term responses; can enhance learning/memory |
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| endocrine & neural changes can result in stress-related disease, chronic activation of stress response results in decrement in learning/memory |
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| Men exhibit greater increase in cortisol in response to stressor (higher stress response) |
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| Short-term, mild stressors improve response to stress as adults |
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| Repeated experience can desensitize response to the same stressor, but can sensitize response to novel stressors |
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| Psychological components of stress |
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| Predictability, control, outlet for frustration |
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