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General adaptation lab

General adaptation lab

Q Instructions: After watching the class video on the General Adaptation Syndrome you are to watch the full-length movie called “Stress Portrait of a Killer” on YouTube.com for lab and answer the questions below. 1. Where was the baboon study done? 2. What are the two hormones that Sapolsky calls the "backbones of the stress response"? 3.What are the differences in stress in dominant versus submissive baboons?

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1. Baboon study was done in the Amboseli basin of southern Kenya .2.The two hormones are adrenaline / epinephrine and glucocorticoids .3 Sapolsky’s research showed that dominant males have the lower stress level and longer lives as compared to the submissive baboons. Submissive monkey’s suffered from bad health , higher blood pressure , lower life expectancy ,increased heart rate and weaker immune systems . Their brain chemistry looks like that of depressed human’s brain..