Biopsychosocial

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Bodily Stress Reactions

• Biopsychosocial
• Model

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1. Voluntary Nervous System

• Conscious
• enables you to scratch your ear, shake hands,
  turn your head

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2. Autonomic Nervous System

• Mainly unconscious
• blushing, getting gooseflesh, having an
• orgasm
• reacts powerfully to stress
• Responds to the Four Fs
• fight, flight, fright, and sex

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Sympathetic Nervous System

• Releases adrenaline in the brain and travels down
  and outward from the spine to
• every blood vessel
• sweat glands
• every hair in your body

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Sympathetic Nervous System

• releases epinephrine from nerve endings in
  adrenal glands
• releases norepinephrine from nerve endings
  throughout your body

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Parasympathetic Nervous System

• Mediates calm activities
• promotes growth
• promotes energy
• relaxation, sleep
• all optimistic processes

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3. What are the physical effects of stress?

• growth inhibition
• effects upon memory and concentration
• damage to neurons inhibiting your ability to
  think clearly

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4. Why do we need psychological outlets for
stress?

• we can even imagine an outlet and get relief.
• sympathetic people decrease our stress
• unpredictability makes stress more stressful.
• feelings of loss of control increase stress on
  the body