Immune System
All About the Glands
Physical, Emotional, and Cognitive Effects of Stress
Vocab
Potpourri
100
The immune system remembers how to battle antigens from previous infections through the use of ...
What are antibodies?
100
The body’s system of ductless glands that secrete hormones and release them directly into the bloodstream is ...
What is the endocrine system?
100
The ______ regulates the glands and involuntary activities such as heartbeat and digestion.
What is the autonomic nervous system?
100
Nancy is a psychologist studying the relationships between psychological factors and the prevention and treatment of physical illness. Her field of study is ...
What is health psychology?
100
When our bodily arousal becomes too high, we tend to focus on ______.
What is our body's responses?
200
White blood cells that fight off bacteria and viruses are called ...
What are leukocytes?
200
The endocrine system affects the body through the production of ...
What are hormones?
200
An innate adaptive response to the perception of danger is the ...
What is the fight-or-flight reaction?
200
Harmful viruses and bacteria are examples of ...
What are pathogens?
200
A temporary condition of anxiety that may be attributed to a situation is ...
What is state anxiety?
300
A substance, usually found on the surface of foreign agents, that stimulates the body to mount an immune-system response to it is called a(n) ...
What is an antigen?
300
The correct chronological sequence of how the endocrine glands are activated during the alarm reaction stage is ...
What are the hypothalamus, pituitary, & adrenal glands?
300
The division of the autonomic nervous system that tones down states of bodily arousal and controls bodily processes that replenish resources, such as digestion, is the ...
What is the parasympathetic division?
300
According to Hans Selye, the body's response to stress is called ...
What is the general adaptation syndrome?
300
The two hormones released by the adrenal medulla that arouse the body by accelerating heart rate, and stimulating the liver to release stored energy in the form of glucose are ______.
What are adrenaline and noradrenaline?
400
Dilation of the blood vessels around a wound or injury that serves to increase blood flow to the region and help fight off infectious agents is called ...
What is inflammation?
400
Hormones produced by the adrenal cortex that increase resistance to stress in ways such as fighting inflammation and causing the liver to release stores of sugar are ...
What are corticosteroids?
400
The alarm reaction stage involves body changes that are regulated by the endocrine system and the ...
What is the sympathetic division of the autonomic nervous system?
400
The correct chronological sequence for the three stages of the general adaptation syndrome is ...
What are alarm reaction, resistance, exhaustion?
400
Corticosteroids are secreted by the ______ during the alarm reaction stage.
What is the adrenal cortex?
500
The field that studies the relationship between psychological factors and the functioning of the immune system is ______.
What is psychoneuroimmunology?
500
The structure in the brain that is crucial to the alarm reaction stage is the ...
What is the hypothalamus?
500
The researcher known for first identifying the fight-or-flight response is ...
Who is Walter Cannon?
500
According to your text, the fight-or-flight reaction is the same as the ...
What is the alarm reaction stage?
500
The pituitary gland secretes ______ during the body's alarm reaction.
What is ACTH (Adrenocorticotropic hormone)?