Stress and the nervous system VCE PSYCHOLOGY

What is a stressor?

Types of Stressors

What is stress?

What is acute stress?

What is chronic stress?

What is Eustress?

What is Distress?

What is a daily pressure in relation to stress?

What is a Life Event in relation to Stress?

What is Acculturative Stress?

What is a Major Stressor?

What is a catastrophe in relation to stress?

What is the Fight - Flight - Freeze Response?

Yerkes - Dodson : Performance and Arousal Model

What is cortisol?

What does cortisol do?

What happens when a stressor is prolonged?

What did Hans Selye discover?

What is Selyes General Adaption Syndrome?

What are the GAS stages?

What are the symptoms of the Alarm Reaction stage in the GAS?

What are the symptoms of the Resistance Stage in the GAS?

What are the symptoms of the Exhuastion Stage in the GAS?

What are the strengths of the GAS

What are the limitations of the GAS?

What are psychological determinants of stress?

What are psychological factors in relation to determinants of stress?

What is Lazarus & Folkman's Transactional Model of Stress and Coping?

Lazarus & Folkman's Transactional Model of Stress and Coping.
Explain IT

Explain Lazarus & Folkman's Transactional Model of Stress and Coping appraisals.

What are Sensory Neurons?

What are interneurons?

What are motor neurons?

What is the typical neural communication order?

What do the different parts of a neuron do?

What is a neurotransmitter?

What happens when a neurotransmitter is released?

What is the lock and key process?

What is an Excitatory Neurotransmitter?

What is Glutamate?

What is Dopamine?

What are Inhibitory Neurotransmitters?

What is Gamma Amino Butyric Acid (GABA)

What process is neural communication?

Communication within a neuron.
EXPLAIN

Explain the communication between neurons.

How do neurotransmitter interruptions occur?

What causes neurotransmitter interruptions?

What are the side effects of neurotransmitter interruptions?

How do you treat neurotransmitter interruptions?

What is Parkinson's Disease?

What causes Parkinson's Disease?

What does the central nervous system do?

What does the Brain do?

What does the Spinal Cord do?

What does SAME mean?

What is the Peripheral Nervous System?

What does the PNS do?

What is the Somatic NS?

What is the Autonomic NS?

What does the Autonomic NS do?

What does the Sympathetic NS do?

What is the Fight- Flight - Freeze response?

What does the Parasympathetic NS do?

What is the spinal reflex?