Stress Portrait of a Killer, Study notes of Psychology

Download Stress Portrait of a Killer and more Study notes Psychology in PDF only on Docsity! Stress Portrait of a Killer Name:__________________________________________________________ Date:____________ 1. List three things stress can do to your body and/or brain. 2. What two hormones are the backbone to the stress response? 3. What happens while the stress response is on? 4. What is the relationship between hierarchy and stress levels (what happens to baboons physiologically who at the bottom of hierarchy)? 5. What did the White Hall study show about people in the lower end of the hierarchy? 6. What did people attribute ulcers to? 7. What was the new discovery on what causes ulcers? 8. How does stress contribute to ulcers? 9. What did they find from the stressed rats brain? (be specific with brain part and function) 10. What is the purpose of dopamine? What does rank affect dopamine levels? 11. Dutch Hunger Winter – What did they find about babies conceived during this famine? 12. How were the fetuses affected by the famine? 13. What are telomeres and their function? 14. What did the women with chronically ill children show about telomeres? 15. Which baboons died and which one’s survived? 16. How did the baboon’s troop culture change after the death of the alpha males? 17. What physiological changes happen to the renewed troop? 18. What things can help reduce stress?