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What is homeostasis? |
A tendency of biologic systems to maintain a stable internal environment by continually adjusting to changes needed for survival |
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What is the meaning of “stasis?” |
A static or balanced state involving continual adaptation, movement and change |
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Another name for homeostasis? |
Equilibrium |
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What are the factors in the external environment that people have to adapt to? |
Physical Biologic Psychosocial |
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Finish the phrase…. “Living in harmony with external environmental factors requires” |
Adaptability and stability |
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How is wellness maintain maintained? |
When you keep a sense of balance while adapting to the factors that can upset the balance. |
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What are the factors that can upset the balance of wellness? |
Life experiences such as: Socialization Education Mental/physical stress Satisfaction Change |
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What is the most crucial factor that can upset your wellness balance? |
Change |
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What happens when change is required? |
It places additional stress on a persons inner resources and can increase your susceptibility to illness |
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What is stress? |
The sum of biologic reactions that takes place in response to any stressor |
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Another name for stressor? |
Adverse stimulus |
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Name all the places stress can come from |
Physical Mental Emotional Within the body From the environment |
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What does stress do? |
Disturbs the organism’s homeostasis and cause the body to adapt |
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What is adaptation that results illness? |
Maladaptation |
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What is adaptation? |
To respond to change |
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What is the area of your body that controls the pathways of communication? |
Brain |
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Name the systems in the body that allows it to adjust, adapt and maintain equilibrium |
Central Nervous System Autonomic Nervous System Endocrine system |
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What does the central nervous system consist of? |
Brain and spinal cord |
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Where in the body is adaptation coordinated? |
In the central nervous system |
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What is the thinking part of the brain? |
Cortex |
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What does the cortex communicate with? |
The midbrain and the brainstem |
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Name the organs found in the brainstem |
Midbrain Pons Medulla oblongata Spinal cord |
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A bundle of nerve fibers in the brainstem that transmits messages to the cortex from the sensory receptors of the body? |
The reticular activating system |
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Where in the brain regulates physiologic functions? |
Hypothalamus |
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What does the hypothalamus helps to do? |
Regulate the autonomic nervous system and the secretion of hormones by the endocrine system
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Name the divisions of the autonomic nervous system? |
Sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system |
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What happens when the brain perceives a threatening situation? |
The sympathetic nervous system stimulates the psychologic functions needed for fight or flight |
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What happens after the threatening situation is over? |
The parasympathetic nervous system works to restore equilibrium |
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State how the endocrine system is involved to sustain fight or fight |
The glands produce hormones |
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Where does the initiation of a stimulus for hormones production comes from? |
Cortex of the brain then travels to the hypothalamus |
