Key Names + Dates Week 2

Question 1

Fight or Flight response

Answer 1

Cannon, 1915

Question 2

Stress and immune response

Answer 2

Immune system enhanced in response to acute stressors
Leukocytes mobilised to likely injury sites (Dhabar, 2009)

Question 3

What can cause a stress response?

Answer 3

Both physical and psychological stressors can trigger the fight/flight response
Selye, 1956

Question 4

Effect of stress on food intake

Answer 4

Physical stressors associated with reduced snack intake
but work, ego threatening and interpersonal stressors
associated with increased snack intake (O’Connor et al.,
2008)

People with high cortisol eat more and may prefer sweet foods (Epel et al., 2001)

Question 5

Transactional theory of stress and coping

Answer 5

Lazarus and Folkman, 1984
Cognitive appraisal involved

Question 6

Stress in rats

Answer 6

Weiss, 1968
Rats that could avoid electric shocks showed fewer physical effects of stress than rats that had no control

Selye, 1936
Noticed that ulcers were more common after stress exposure in rats

Question 7

Social Readjustment Rating Scale

Answer 7

Holmes and Rahe, 1964
Assigned a score to possibly stressful life eventsA

Question 8

Allostatic load

Answer 8

McEwen, 1998
Wear and tear on the body due to repeated exposure to stress

Question 9

Psychoneuroimmunology

Answer 9

Focuses on how stressors influence immune function

Question 10

Chronic stress and immune function

Answer 10

Kiecolt-Glaser et al., 1991
Caregiving for family members associated with poorer immune functioning

Puncture wounds took longer to heal in caregiver
Kiecolt-Glaser et al., 1995

Question 11

Experimental studies using manipulation of exposure to pathogen or injury

Answer 11

Participants randomly allocated to be exposed to
nasal drops containing respiratory virus or just saline
solution, stress levels measured before. Higher stress
associated with greater infection rates (Cohen et al.,
1991)

Question 12

Early years stress

Answer 12

Prenatal exposure to endogenous cortisol associated with greater fear response in offspring
Davis et al., 2007

Question 13

Burnout components

Answer 13

Exhaustion
Depersonalisation
Low personal accomplishment

Question 14

Sleep and stress

Answer 14

Sleep affected by stress (Drake et al., 2014)

In sleep deprived individuals, antibody response to vaccine is lesser (Spiegel et al., 2002)

Question 15

Social support and stress

Answer 15

Caregivers with low levels of social support had poorer immune outcomes (Kiecolt-Glaser et al., 1991)

Question 16

Treatment for anxiety disorders

Answer 16

Pharmacological treatments include benzodiazepines, SSRIs, antidepressants (Slee et al., 2019)
CBT

Question 17

Treatment for OCD

Answer 17

CBT, SSRI antidepressants (Hirschtritt et al., 2017)

Question 18

Treatment for PTSD

Answer 18

CBT, EDMR (Wilson et al., 2018)
Antidepressants
Differs per person