Physiological connection between events and stress responses
- Explain the concept
of homeostasis
- Maintaining same
internal status
- Struggle to return
to stability, normal condition
- Body thermostat =
shivering, sweating or normal
- Hunger & thirst response
to deficiency
- Blood glucose and
insulin balance
- Explain "General
Adaptation Syndrome" -- Selye
- Alarm Reaction: short
term, acute, response
- Resistance: intermediate
hormonal response
- Exhaustion: prolonged
worry/fatigue/breakdown
- Explain "Fight-or-Flight"
Response -- Cannon
- Survival response:
potent, immediate
- Elicts potential
for extra-ordinary strength
- Usually unnecessary
in twentieth century, western world
- Creates high potential
for cardiovascular spasms and sudden death
- Explain "Appraisal
and Coping" -- Lazarus
- Daily hassles and
uplifts
- Inputs, outputs,
responses and mediators
- Adaptation to frequency,
severity and content of real and imagined events
- John Mason contradicts
the argument of Hans Selyes' "Non-Specific" Response
- Endocrine system
has very specific response to different stressors
- Individuals respond
in strereotypic manner
- The concept: Relaxation
Response
- Trophotropic slowing
of metabolism
- General decrease
in muscle tension throughout the body
- Differs from functional,
differential relaxation
- Explain individual
unique stress profile.
- Compare two individuals
and their sterotypical responses
- Evaluate your awareness
of these responses
- Specific localized
stress response and the General Adaptation Syndrome.
- Singular isloated
responses vs. overwhelming systemic "stressed out" reactions
- The relaxation response
according the Benson.
- Herbert Benson (Harvard
Medical School)
- Author of book "Relaxation
Response"
- Non-cultic meditation:
focal point/attention
- Universally active
& appropriate for all
- Lehrer reports contradicting
evidence that various relaxation techniques have unique effects