What is Autonomic Nervous System?
Portion of the nervous system that controls the functioning of many internal bodily processes such as heart rate, digestive processes, and so on.
What is Sympathetic Nervous System?
Division of the autonomic nervous system primarily involved in stress or emergency reactions. For example, produces an increase in heart rate and blood pressure.
What is Parasympathetic Nervous System?
Division of the autonomic nervous system primarily involved in conservation of energy, such as increasing digestive processes.
What is Homeostatic Mechanisms?
Processes whereby equilibrium or balance is maintained in a dynamic system.
What is Psychoneuroimmunology?
The study of the neural effects of psychological events on the immune system.
What is Diathesis-stress Model?
A model of mental disorders that proposes disorders develop when an individual with a diathesis (predisposition) experiences significant psycho logical stress.
What is Flooding?
Therapeutic technique in which the person is made to confront the stimuli that arouse anxiety until the anxiety extinguishes.
What is Habituation?
Lessening of a response as a function of repeated presentations of the eliciting stimulus.
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