Health Test #1

Dodson principle

- After a certain point, stress can impede one's performance and health - Optimal stress level that affects performance

what things can reduce stress?

- Controlling stress is good - lowering amount of work --> rewarding efforts - giving rather than receiving - Transforming textbook social systems

3 things that stress can do to you

- Heart attacks - Aging - Unraveled chromosomes

What happens while the stress response is on?

- Hyperventilate - Heart rate goes up - Muscles tense

Characteristics of flight or fight

- Increased heart rate/blood pressure *NOT gastric movement

Negative impacts of sleep hygiene

- Menopause - Alcohol - Cell phone use - Kauva Tea

Person who scores more than ___ on the social readjudgement scale is more vulnerable to stress.

150

Receiving this many emails per day results in email stress..

50

What are the two hormones that Sapolsky calls the "backbone" of the stress response?

Adrenaline and Glucocorticoid

Dutch Hunger Winer - How were the fetuses affected by the famine and what are the long term affects?

Affects them with mood disorders and health complications

Hans - First stage of general adaptation syndrome

Alarm stage

Holistic Wellness Paradigm

All of the above

Most commonly associated with illness or disease

Chronic stress

How does the physiological stress response aid in survival of humans and non-human animals?

Conditions where people live and work affect their stress levels

What is the relationship between hierarchy and stress levels?

Cunning and aggressive males are at the top of the hierarchy; ranks determine level or stress hormone; dominant males have low amounts, submissives are much higher

Event in adulthood that is thought to be the most stressful in one's life

Divorce

Healing and curing is the same thing

False

Migraine headaches are related to chronic anxiety

False

T or F: Brain imaging research, damaged brain cells from chronic stress is reversible.

False

T or F: Healing and curing mean the same thing.

False

T or F: Incivility in America is radio talk show host

False

T or F: Serotonin is most closely associated with a good nights sleep

False - melatonin

T or F: Social influences are most likely to cause the greatest stress in ones life.

False - psychological and interpersonal

Race and gender attitudes begin...

Grade school

Dutch Hunger Winter - What did they discover about babies conceived during a famine?

Increased risk of heart disease, more responsive to stress, poorer in health than others, and brain hormone response

What is the purpose of dopamine? How does rank affect dopamine levels?

Is signals pleasure - dominate monkeys have lots of dopamine

Adrenal gland rests on top of this organ

Kidney

Three events that are most stressful events of college students during academic year:

Life changes: death of family/friend; divorce

What did the Whitehall study show about people in the lower end of the hierarchy?

Low ranked government officials experiences lots of stress - the lower you are, the higher your risk of heart disease - those at the top have great health and less stress

Determines one's degree of stress

Perception or interpretation

Most stressors fall in this category

Psychointrapersonal influences

Which is not a sequence of flight or fight response?

The limbic system (stage 1: stimuli from one or more of the five senses are sent to the brain. Stage 2: the brain deciphers the stimulus as either threat or non. Stage 3: the body stats activated, aroused, or keyed up. Stage 4: body returns to homeostasis

How did the baboon troop's culture change after the death of the alpha males?

Their culture because more social and pleasant; the absence of stress positively impacted their society

What did women with chronically ill children show about telomeres?

Their telomeres shrunk, the length shows how long they have been stressed - every year they take care of an ill child they age about 6 more years

What happens to baboons physiologically who are at the bottom of the hierarchy?

They are found to have increased heart rates and higher blood pressure - cause the deterioration of their health because they would have a bad immune system and their brain chemistry would be messed up

What was an important finding following the death of many members of the baboon troop?

They started eating food in the garbage dumb tainted with TB that wiped out a bunch of the troop; Sapolsky recognized that the social baboons survived and the alphas died - twice as many females lived and the males left were good and that transformed the atmosphere of the group

Parasympathetic (a branch of nervous system) is responsible for relaxation T/F

True

Shallow effect principle leads to cherrypicking, mess with ability to focus correspond T/F

True

T or F: Change and stress are often used synonymously.

True

T or F: Co-rumination is good for women coping with stress.

True

T or F: Future shock is here now.

True

T or F: Key to helping release stress of PTSD...seems to be something of the unconscious mind.

True

T or F: Quantic Mental Antsiness is frustration from multitasking

True

T or F: Smartphone all day

True

T or F: Techno stress - rate of stress out pace...moral codes

True

The word health really means to be whole T/F

True

emotional well being best described as the ability to feel and express entire range of emotions and not be controlled by them T/F

True

experts in social narcissism prove that incivility in our culture.... T/F

True

Secondary PTSD disorder

Vicarious dramatization (family members) - term given to family members, friends, and colleagues who are negatively affected by the ripples of strife from loved ones who have direct exposure to severe trauma

The tend and befriend theory applies to...

Women

Explain the difference between Chronic and Acute Stress

acute stress is short and very intense. i.e. getting pulled over. chronic stress is longer in length but it is not an intense i.e. financial problems

madison disease is associated with failure of this organ

adrenal

people on cell phones show a driving impairment of what

blood alcohol level of .08

when the term screen addiction is used it refers to?

computer screens

Based on brain-imagining research, which of the following is not true?

damage to brain cells from chronic stress is reversible

What are the differences between stress dominant and submissive baboons and what are the effects of stress?

dominant baboons had low stress hormones and longer lives. Submissive baboons had higher stress hormones, increased heart rates, and weaker immune systems. this is also true with humans

What did Shively's study done on social stress in Winston-Salem, NC, on meerkat monkeys discover:

dominant monkeys arteries were clean, whereas a subordinate monkey had plaque in its arteries causing heart attacks

This neurotransmitter is associated with chemical addictions and even screen addictions

dopamine

The shallow effect refers too:

dumbing down of americans from the internet

the term shallow effect related to this concept

dumbing down of the being on screen due to internet

Candace Pert discovered that the immune cells have built-in receptor sites for neuropeptides and hypothesized that?

emotions can suppress and enhance the immune system

What did people attribute to ulcers?

first believed it was stress then a bacterial disorder - is was found that the ulcer causing bacteria turned out to be cause by stress - when you wre stressed you body shuts down your immune system and the bacteria grows on the stomach walls

Presenteeism

is the problem of going tow work but being unproductive and unmotivated being there in body but not in mind. (test questions is different than this but answers is false)

This stressor would be classified as a bioecological influencer

not enough sunlight

conceptually speaking the stress response is antiquated in society where few stressors are

physical natured

What is important about the distribution of weight in monkeys that are in different places in social hierarchy?

putting on weight around stomach (center) is related to chronic stress, subordinate monkeys are more likely to put on weight in the abdomen.

Future Shock refers too:

rapid societal change and his happening now

The adrenal Medulla

releases epinephrine and norepinephrine

a decrease in this hormone will result in depression

seratonin

the Dodson principle suggests that

some stress is good and some bad

What did the researchers find from the stressed rat's brain?

stress rats brains were dramatically smaller and had decreased amount of neuroactivity because stress pinches off neurons. this affected hippocampus, which is part of the brain that deals with memory. acute stress makes it impossible to remember things perfectly

The link between rank and stress in the United Kingdom workplace

the lower the rank there stress, higher rank less stress

In blackburn's study on chronic stress what did she find and what does this have to do with chromosome (telomeres) and stress?

the telomeres length relates to the amount of stress someone is under and the length of that stress. the telomeres are also unravel. the mothers disabled children had decreased number of enzymes and shortened telomeres. Each year chronics stress (that they cared for their child) cause their life expectancy to decrease by 6 years.

What were the dominant males more susceptible to disease?

they were not a involved in the community because they has excess levels of testosterone which may have sped up their death, the more social baboons survived

in his stress theory lazous says that this daily hassles cause stress and these hassles are often based on:

unmet expectations