5 2 2014 PSYC 2101 Notes Microsoft OneNote Web App Ch 15 Notes Saturday February 08 2014 11 41 PM Personality Temperament and their Stress Related Consequences Those with very reactive and aggressive personalities and temperaments have higher stress responses than those who go with the flow and are nice to those around them In contrast those who see everything as a potential threat and avoid it also have higher stress responses than those with good coping skills Individual styles of coping with social stress are critical Baboon Studies Individuals who respond to every social situation with over reaction have the highest cardiovascular risk Baboons who cannot tell the difference between winning or losing have the highest cardiovascular risk Males who coped best had the highest levels of social control predictability and outlets for frustration Baboons who make friends easily also have the lowest levels of stress hormones high reactors ones who react to every stimulus with a high stress response The Human Realm A cautionary note Trying to figure out what the reason is for certain things such as repeated miscarriages is hard because looking into the past after repeated abortions skews the results Psychiatric Disorders and Abnormal Stress Responses Those with depression and anxiety have stress responses that are markedly different from normal Anxiety Disorders Rooted in cognitive distortion in which a sense of dread and foreboding is always present Unlike depressed people they try to cope with stressors but see stressors everywhere and perpetually In psychiatric disorders catecholamines mediate the response to a stressor and an abundance of glucocorticoids is a signal on giving up the attempt to cope The Biology of Anxiety Implicit learning where a certain autonomic response in your body has been conditioned The amygdala gets information from the autonomous nervous system before the rest of the brain Amygdala is very sensitive to glucocorticoid signals Type A Key factor in this personality is hostility hostility is a significant predictor of cardiovascular issues and more https onedrive live com edit aspx resid 7AF35F2B369F2BE4 1552 cid 7af35f2b369f2be4 app OneNote wdo 2 1 2 5 2 2014 PSYC 2101 Notes Microsoft OneNote Web App recently linked to mortality in all diseases Key factor in heart disease for Type A was not only hostility but the tendency not to express it when angry Reducing hostility through therapy reduces the risk for heart disease Repressors People who repress their emotions have high levels of stress hormoesn but they have very rigid views about soiceyt and are very black and white in their thinking It takes a lot of stress to build a world without stressors https onedrive live com edit aspx resid 7AF35F2B369F2BE4 1552 cid 7af35f2b369f2be4 app OneNote wdo 2 2 2