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What is the parasympathetic nervous system
Slows down stress response
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What is the sympathetic nervous system
Gets you going when you are stressed
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What are the effects of sympathetic nervous system
increased heart rate, breathing rate, sweating and trembling
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What is another name for the SAM system
Sympathomedullary Pathway
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What does a sudden stressor lead to?
An acute stress response
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A long period of stress leads to
A chronic stress response
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The neurotransmitter responsible for activating organs?
Noradrenaline
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what are the effects of adrenaline in the blood?
increased oxygen and glucose supply in the brain
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What is one of the chronic stress responses most commonly known as?
HPA axis
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What do all the letters stand for in the HPA axis
H- hypothalamus P-pituatory A-Adrenal Medulla
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What is stimulated by the hypothalamus?
The pituatory gland
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What is secreted by the pituatory gland
ACTH
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What are the acute stress responses
fight or flight, link to evolution, SAM system , effects on the heart
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What is supporting evidence for the acute stress response?
Jonathon Leor et al-Northridge california earthquake links to cardiovascular disorders. Cardiomyopathy is a condition arising from traumatic experience that is commonly mistaken for a heart attack.
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Chronic stress responses
All correct
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HANS selye gas model components
Alarm, Resistance, Exhaustion
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A strength of the chronic stress response?
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A weakness of chronic stress response?
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what are issues with the stress response
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Whats Griffiths 6 characteristics of addiction?
Salience-most important thing is the addiction, mood modification-behaviours change when the addictive substance alters the mood pathway, tolerance-take more of the substance to get desired effect,withdrawal symptoms, conflict and relapse
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Studies to support dopamine and link to addictions
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what evidence is against dopamine?
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