Physical Effects of Stress

4. Not eating or sleeping properly, or failing to get enough exercise.
8. Walter _____ identified the acute pathway, involved in the fight-or-flight response.
9. Sheldon _____ measured levels of psychological stress and a cold virus?
11. _____ contributes to a wide range of disorders, especially when it is long-term, or chronic.
13. Specialized white blood cells that fight bacteria, viruses, and other foreign invaders.
14. a response that prepares people to either fight or take flight form an immediate threat?
16. Prolonged stress, 2nd pathway was identified by Hans _____.

1. During this stage the body’s energy reserves become depleted, and adaption begins to break down, leading to _____.
2. Walter Cannon found that fight-or-flight involved both _____ nervous system and the endocrine system.
3. A hormone secreted by the pituitary gland in a stress response.
5. ____ stress activates a second endocrine pathway involving the hypothalamus, pituitary gland, and adrenal cortex.
6. People who are under a lot of stress tighten their neck and head muscles, resulting in tension headaches.
7. Physiological arousal lessens but remains above normal in this stage.
10. protective casing at the end of a strand of DNA.
12. In what stage are catecholamines release but the adrenal medulla, in Hans Selye’s general adaptation syndrome.
15. The _____ system is the body system that produces specialized white blood cells that protect the body from viruses, bacteria, and tumor cells.