58 PsychSim 5: All Stressed Out PsychSim 5: ALL STRESSED OUT Name: __________________________________________ Section: ________________________ Date: 9/17/12 This activity examines the way that psychologists conceptualize stress, emphasizing that stress is a biopsycho-social process. You will explore the sources of stress in your own life, review your body’s response to stress, and then learn how cognitive appraisal dramatically affects how much stress you actually experience.
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after a Colgan Air Flight plane number 3407 crashed in February 2009 (Fitzgerald, 2010). The crash claimed 50 lives of people. Some of the factors that were said to contribute to the crash include fatigue, training and pilot qualifications. Among the responses made includes the Airline Safety and Aviation Administration Extension of 2010. Primarily, the act states the requirements that are required as the entry level into being a pilot for the commercial passenger and the cargo flights. In addition,
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Gender and Racial Barriers in Flight Training Student’s Name Institution of Learning The ethics in aviation has become a very popular topic during the last several years. We cannot say that it was not discussed at all before that, but probably now people are more able to formally define what is “wrong” and “right” in the actions done by the pilots. However, we should not limit the word “ethics” to doing the right thing only. Ethics stands also about promoting the proper piloting philosophy
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released, which result in physical manifestations of stress. These can include slowed digestion, shaking, tunnel vision, accelerated breathing and heart rate, dilation of the pupils, and flushed skin. This process is often referred to as the “fight or flight” response. That is just what it sounds like: Our bodies are poised to either run away from the stressor or stick around and fight against it (Cohen, 2016). The Major cause of Stress The major cause of stress on college
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campaigns. Answer each of the following questions in 50 to 75 words: What steps of the general adaptation syndrome will I experience? * I would think the first steps of general adaptation syndrome that I would face would be the fight or flight reaction. This would mean that my body would trigger an alarm that would tell my body to prepare to fight or flee from a threatening stressor or source of danger * What emotional and cognitive effects might this stressor produce? * Emotional
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You may have heard the name Flight 19 before but, do you know what it really means? Flight 19 was a group of five TBM Avengers bomber planes. Flight 19 disappeared off the coast of Florida on December 5, 1945. None of the aircraft returned from their mission. The base which they took off from sent a seaplane to find and rescue them but it too never returned. A U.S Navy's final report said that the reason was unknown why they had got lost. So Flight-19 became known as “The Lost Patrol”. Many people
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Aerospace and Marine Data Recorders Aerospace and marine data recorders are used in commercial and defense applications. Aerospace and marine data recorders are segmented into flight, cockpit, and voyage data recorders. While cockpit voice recorders record radio transmissions, pilots voices, and engine noises; flight data recorders record performance parameters of planes, such as time, altitude, fuel levels, and airspeed. Similarly, voyage data recorders record wind speed and direction, ships
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Transmile Group 1. Fuel Tank Explosion http://seattletimes.com/html/businesstechnology/2003016407_webntsb24.html?syndication=rss NTSB investigating reported fuel-tank explosion on Boeing 727 in India The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is sending a team of investigators to Bangalore, India, to assist in the investigation of a reported wing fuel-tank explosion on a Transmile Airlines Boeing 727-200. Transmile is a Malaysian air-cargo company. The incident occurred May 4 while
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known as the ‘fight or flight response’, which triggers psychological and physical changes in our bodies. The release of chemicals can give rise to very real physical symptoms such as the release of adrenalin, a rapid heart rate and breathing as well as heightened senses. These symptoms are designed to give us the ability to ‘fight or flee’ a specific danger. In evolutionary terms it would have been this very reaction that has kept the human race going. The ‘fight or flight’ response has been created
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Flight 93 and Utilitarianism in Times of Crisis Consider Flight 93 on September 11, 2001. Thinking as a utilitarian, in 350-500 words explain what your position would have been if the plane had been shot down by United States armed forces rather than having crashed as a result of the passengers' actions. Are we more likely to accept the idea of utilitarianism in a time of crisis? If so, does that make the theory acceptable? Explain. I remember this time clear in my mind and the first
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