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Assignment 1: Sympathetic Activation

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Assignment 1: Sympathetic Activation
Sympathetic Activation
1.) This is the reactions of the human body such as increase heart rate and blood pressure, the sweating
2.) They looked at this when evaluating Acute Stressor and the actions oft the
3.) The reason they looked at this is to see why people have these specific physical responses. This cause an evaluation of other less obvious physical response
4.) +Can be used to help patients that can’t physical responses because of an illness
- Stress is to the only thing that causes that reaction

HPA Activation
1.) This is the the process of cortisol being release causing regulation of certain inflaming and can cause a decrease of the actions of the immune system
2.) This was looked at when looking at the fight and flight
3.) The
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The assumption was that if the individual a less success in the category they would have a larger amount of stressors.
2.) This was a study looking were they had seven different questionnaires that were all related to several different stressors the stressors being The environment, The person’s job, housing. Neighborhood, social support, economic, and loneliness. They found that people who had a high average between the two were put into a high risk and are more likely to have later heart problems. In conclusion they found that there is a relationship between the stressors and the physical
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Then it can cause mental problems because in a way they are to evaluate their current life situation

Kiecolt-Glaser et al. 1984
1.) The aim of this study to look at the amount of T-cell before students are to take a test and afterwards. The assumption was that before there would be an increase in the amount of T-cells before the test and there would be a drastic decrease after the examination
2.) In this study they had participants who before the exams they measured their T-cell levels for a month through blood samples. Then the measures The T-Cell levels after the examinations. In the results it showed that there was a decrease in the amount T-cells after the exam. In conclusion it shoed that stress decreases the activity of the immune system.
3.) The blood was taken with the consent of the students and there are several other aspects that could cause an increase in the amount of T-cell outside of the examinations so there are extraneous variables not prevented

Selye (1956) GAS (General Adaptation Syndrome)
1.) The aim of this study was to create the stages that humans go through when going through stress. The assumption was that stress was divided into several

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