Psychology Stress
AS AQA 'A' Psychology Stress
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- Created on: 29-05-13 10:56
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- Stress
- Immune system
- Acute Short-term stressors
- Marucha - 'punch biopsy'
- Kiecolt-Glaser - exam stress
- Fischer - Apollo astronauts
- Chronic long-term stressors
- Kiecolt-Glaser - relationship stress
- Malarkey - newly-wed couples
- Arnetz - unemploymentin women in Sweden
- Evaluation
- Lazarus - difficult to establish relationship between stress and illness
- Evans - stress can sometimes enhance immune system
- Segerstrom and Miller - acute stressors can boost immune system and chronic stressors leed to immunosuppression
- Acute Short-term stressors
- Body's response to stress
- Sympathomedullary Pathway (acute stress)
- Pituitary-Adrenal System
- Taylor (2000) - 'fight or flight' (men) and 'tend and befriend (women)
- Life changes
- Daily hassles
- Workplace stress
- Personality factors and stress
- Psychological methods of stress management
- Biological methods of stress management
- Cardiovasculardisorders
- Immune system
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