“This video is about Robert Sapolsky explaining the psychology of stress. Sapolsky talks about how homeostasis means being in a homeostatic balance, meaning that your body temperate is regulated ideally to how it should be comfortably or how your glucose levels in the blood stream are ideally regulated to how it should be. Sapolsky also talks about how we humans have to understand as well as to expand homeostasis/homeostatic balance to a whole new level critically than if we were just a lion and a zebra. This is because, Sapolsky talks about how sometimes we humans can turn on the stress response due to a change in the homeostatic balance or how we humans can turn on the stress response because we feel like we are about to be stressed. Sapolsky …show more content…
In my opinion, I honestly enjoyed watching this brief video and thought it was extremely interesting as well. Honestly, I never really thought about homeostasis/ homeostatic balance on the level that Robert Sapolsky was explaining within the video. In regards to “turning on the stress responses, purely because of psychological reasons and how we turn it on from memories, emotions as well as thoughts and how this is not how it was evolved for” (Robert Sapolsky Video). I believe this is true. For example would be: An individual is riding an evaluator when all a sudden it stops working because of a malfunction that the evaluator is having. The individual immediately turns on the stress response and begins to feel really uncomfortable because of this situation. Eventually, the individual is rescued and the evaluator is fixed. Now fast-forwarding, that same individual rides in another evaluator. That individual could in-fact turn on the stress response even if the evaluator works normally as it should with nothing stressful to occur. This is because the individual could be uncomfortable with riding an evaluator due to his past experience with evaluators in the past or even how he may feel about evaluators in …show more content…
They also rate uplifts, such as completing a task, being complimented or laughing at a joke” (Chapter 14, pg. 505). In my opinion, there are many ways I deal with stress. Completing a task or doing well in College helps me deal with stress. Activities such as; reading, writing, painting or drawing also helps me deal with stress. As well as watching movies helps me deal with stress. Having a good support system around me helps me deal with stress. My family, my fiancé’ as well as close friends of mine all help me feel better when I am dealing with stress. Lastly, trying to stay positive even in a stressful time also helps me when dealing with
Humans frequently turn on the stress response that was intended to assist our survival in reaction to the everyday challenges we face. Professor Michael Marmot conducted a study in England of 28,000 people’s health over a course of 40 years. Each person was a British
Stress Is the body’s way of responding to the hectic lives most of us live, whether good or bad. The body releases chemicals into the bloodstream, which creates a rush of energy and strength If an individual is feeling stressed. This energy can prove useful if an individual is in physical danger. Because it enables a person’s survival instinct kicks in; it is often described as ‘fight or flight.’ In addition, stress can also have a negative effect on the body, for example: suffering from stress and leaving it unchecked can contribute to health problems, such as high blood pressure, heart disease, obesity, and diabetes.
Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers is a book about the physiology of stress. It gets into great detail about what exactly is going on inside the body during periods of high stress, and also what short and long term affects are caused by that stress. The first chapter give a brief description of each chapter in the rest of the book. Each subsequent chapter explains different stressors, levels of stress, and hormonal responses to stress. Many of the chapters also include research and discoveries on how stress affects the human body, many of which are somewhat recent discoveries, only occurring in the last one hundred years or so. Robert Sapolsky is able to explain to his readers much about the physiology of stress and how endocrinology plays the most
When put under stress, both humans and baboons have cortisol and adrenaline found in their blood. These hormones are critical for survival, and other physical changes in the body such as a racing heart, increased blood pressure, and quickly responding muscles are all present when the body is put under stress. However, in regard to humans, these same physical responses can occur when the body is not in a life in death situation. Instead, it is common for psychological stresses such as public speaking, taking a test, paying taxes, or driving a vehicle to invoke the same physiological responses as someone in a critical situation. This can be unhealthy for the human body, as many people can get worked up over multiple stressors in one day,
Tummers (2013) suggest that effective stress management can have a positive impact on health to prevent psychological and mental health illnesses.
Stress can come from anything we do in our daily lives, even if it is a positive or negative change. To measure the amount of stress a single event can cause two men named Thomas Holmes and Richard Rahe came up with the Social Readjustment Rating Scale. Over time this scale has been modified to accommodated for
Animals and Humans have a biological stress response intended to facilitate survival in the case of a life threatening attack or severe illness. This is commonly referred to the “fight or flight” response. Some primates, including humans have developed the unhealthy propensity to trigger this response for psychological or social reasons. Humans in particular experience the stress response exponentially more often for psychological reasons than for the purpose of survival (Stress, 2008). For example, we are may feel “stressed out” about work or school and if we think about it too much and get upset, we may experience a stress response Just by thinking about something that is bothering us, we can trigger the biological “fight or flight”
1.) Summary: Kelly McGonigal who is a health psychologist gives a thought-provoking lecture called “How to Make Stress Your Friend” at an official TED conference in June 2013. During the first part of the presentation, Ms. McGonigal confesses to the crowd that she been teaching about stress completely wrong, “Basically, I’ve turned stress into the enemy. But I have changed my mind about stress…” Ms. McGonigal emphasizes the point that people who view stress as not harmful (not their enemy), were less likely to die to people who view stress as their enemy; therefore, when people change their mind about stress, they can change their body response to stress to make them healthier. As the presentation gets further along, Kelly McGonigal states how oxytocin plays a huge role in controlling stress. This neuro-hormone, which is released during stress, motivates you to seek support, which is the reason why stress makes you social. At the same time, oxytocin acts
“The NSM identifies three relevant environments: the internal environment, which is intrapersonal in nature; the external environment, which is interpersonal and extrapersonal in nature; and the created environment, which is intrapersonal, interpersonal, and extrapersonal in nature” (Neuman & Fawcett, 2011, p. 20). With any system the goal is to maintain a constant state of homeostasis despite numerous disruptive forces. Disruptive forces are considered the stressors that have the potential to cause an imbalance in homeostasis.
Stress can be broadly defined as any external and internal events that affects an organism’s well being. In attempt to maintain homeostasis, the body will respond to the psychological stress by modifying physiological processes (Nargund, 2015). Psychological stress is a number of emotional events that interrupts homeostasis. The disruption of homeostasis can affect many biological systems, such as metabolism, vascular function, tissue repair, nervous system and reproductive system. Both emotional and physical stress can have a negative impact on human reproductive function (Cousineau, 2007; Jakobovits et al, 2002). Therefore, it is very important to know how to cope with stress when experiencing life events that are very stressful. My presentation
The unceasing process of how our body’s regulate its own internal environment is known as Homeostasis. The compatibility with maintaining life can be seen in how the body’s equilibrium can shift among points in a narrow range in a response to changing conditions. Maintaining the composition and volume of dilute, body fluids, and watery solutions that contains dissolved chemicals that are found inside cells as well as surrounding them. There are continuous disturbances of homeostasis in the human body, for example, when you skip breakfast and your blood glucose level falls to low. Psychological stress that comes from our social environment, such as the demands from school or work can also cause homeostatic imbalances.
Throughout life stress is a common problem whether it’s at work, school or home. The many negative effects of stress in fact affect individuals differently varying from health issues to work performance. Therefore, all individuals have different views of stress and various ways of handling it or otherwise managing their stress. Stress is when any living thing feels endangered and its homeostasis is at risk (Varvogli & Darviri, 2011, p. 74). Ways of dealing with stress are efforts of cognitive, behavioral, and psychological nature that allows a person to manage stress. Although there are different causes of stress, there are also many techniques for relieving it. The following articles are intended for the reader to
As one has seen, positive stress adds anticipation and excitement to life, and we all thrive under a certain amount of stress. Deadlines, competitions, confrontations, and even our frustrations and sorrows add depth and enrichment to our lives. Our goal is not to eliminate stress but to learn how to manage it and how to use it to help us. Insufficient stress acts as a depressant and may leave us feeling bored or rejected; on the other hand, excessive stress may leave us feeling "tied up in knots." What one needs to do is find a safe level of stress, which will individually motivate but not overwhelm them.
As we learned in class, stress is any force that changes the body’s natural state, known as homeostasis. Stress does not always have to be viewed as a bad thing. For example, stress can motivate someone to study for an exam or plan ahead in his or her agenda to stay organized. Its only when stress manifest out of control and is not addressed properly that it can have very negative effects on both our mental and physical health. Reflecting on the document we watched in class, Stress: Portrait of a Killer, I was surprised to learn more about baboons correlating to human beings stress management and how you position as individual in the hierarchy of life has in effect on the levels of stress you may endure.
“Stress is a silent disease” (Doctor Hobel). Over the years, stress has played a major rule in a large majority of people’s lives throughout the United States. When thought about, it is said to be extremely surprising as to how many people really have stress in each individual’s life. People do not consider what the reasons are for the feelings and emotions they experience. There are all different types of stress, and stress can do a lot to a person. Each person also handles stress in a different way. Some can handle more than others, because every single person’s body works in a different way. Stress has also been told to cause people to act out of character (Dr. David Posen). They often do not act the way they usually would while under