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27 Cards in this Set
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are sexes equal in terms of diseases
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no sometimes one sex is more likely to get a disease than the other.
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sex specific stress diseases__over time
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change
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4 levels of sexual determination
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-chromosomal sex->xx or xy
-gonadal-->hormones -morphological-->body -behavioural -->gender roles |
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Hans Selye
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grandfather of stress, gave rats estrogen
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stress can be either adaptive or maladaptive. What are 4 ways stress can be maladaptive
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-repeated hits-->constantly active HPA axis
-lack of adaptation -prolonged response -inadequate response |
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during stress HPA activated, so in an experiment men and women in menstrual cycle. Compare levels of ACTH,plasma cortisol, cortisol
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ACTH:higher in men during stress, less during menstrual
Plasma cortisol: similar cortisol:women in luteal responding like men to stress to cortisol |
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hormonal changes can effect cortisol stress response this indicates
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a sex effect
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social support on cortisol stress response experiment and is this gender effect
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-men less stressed ie more support from spouse
-guys less support from their homies -women more support from their girlz YES |
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in experiment to study responses to an achievement stressor, who was more stressed and is this gender effect
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-women
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in experiment to study response to social rejection stressor who was more stressed when ignored and is this gender effect
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women, gender
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context and stressor affect the magnitude of stress response this is a ___effect. And is socialization responsible
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GENDER,YES
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due to gender socialization boys encourage to be more independent and active less supervision than girls the consequences of this
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girls grow up being more dependant and value social goals more
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gender identity can be measured (the degree to which socialization patterns established) two tests Bem sex role inventory and personality attributes questionnaire measure
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gender identity
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acute stress-->allostasis=
chronic stress-->allostatic load= |
-stability through change
-wear and tear |
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allosteric index
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marker to help indicate something before its too late
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theres a ____effect due to multi systemic effect
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domino
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4 major factors affecting allosteric load
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age,sex,economic stress,race
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workplace stressors are___specific and depend on environment.
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sex
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sex and gender influence the likelihood of gettin stress related malfunction. Evidence suggests that gender is related to___. Woman report____self rated physical symptoms. Masculine typed people more prone to_____pathologies
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allosteric load, greater, hyperarousal
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-in experiment seen that increased age/masculine=increased
-being female and increased masculine=increased -increased allosteric load=increased |
-allosteric load
-physical complaints -physical complaints |
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sexual minorities stress has two processes
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-distal-->objective stressors (homophobia prejudice etc)
-proximal-->subjective distress ( how they felt etc) |
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LGB __likely than hetero to report discrimination and victimization and the two main stressor
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more, accepting and coming out
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study done to look at sexual minorities compared to hetero the hypothesis was that sexual minorities should show increased levels of (3) another part of study hypothesized that within the sexual minorities looked and compared disclosed to those that haven't come out and hypothesized that disclosed should show decreased levels of the (3) above
Hypothesis 1 was it confirmed and what about 2 |
-psychiatric symptoms,cortisol,AL
-NO,partially |
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many biomarkers for AL like (5)
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neuroendocrine,immune,metabolic,cardiovasc,anthropometric
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non-disclosed vs disclosed
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disclosed showed less stress ie less symptoms of anxiety/depression/burnout
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does sexual orientation play role on cortisol and sex hormones
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yes, seen that lesbians/bisexual more cortisol than hetero women, gay/bi men less cortisol than hetero
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do sex hormones modulate cortisol
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YES
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