Today we spent some time reviewing our work on stress as a bodily response and stress and the immune system from last term. The sympathomedullary pathway and the pituitary-adrenal system are tough things to learn if you are not a natural at biology, but you need to be able to describe each one in detail. Make sure this features regularly in your revision over the coming months - you will eventually fix it in your LTM if you keep coming back to it!
Our new topic in stress is Life Changes - positive and negative events which require us to 'socially readjust' and which can lead to stress and illness.
You need to be able to:
Define and recognise Life Changes.
Describe how the Social Readjustment Rating Scale (SRRS) was created by Holmes and Rahe.
Describe and evaluate Rahe et al's (1970) study of Life Changes and stress in US Navy Personnel.
Completing this is homework for Thursday.
Here is the presentation from the lesson.
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