Stress: Portrait of a Killer Worksheet
Video can be found on Netflix. Just type in the title in the search bar on youtube, or go
to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYG0ZuTv5rs
1. How are baboons stressed (in comparison to the typical ways animals are stressed)?
2. What does Sapolsky measure in the blood of baboons?
3. What does it mean that human beings can’t find their “off switch?”
4. In baboons, how are stress hormones, heart rate, and blood pressure related to one’s
position in the social hierarchy?
5. What does Sapolsky say about the physical and neurological consequences of stress?
6. Why are workers in the British Civil Service good to study when considering stress?
7. What did the Civil Service study discover about hierarchy and health?
8. Historically, what was the first physical problem tied to stress? Also, what recent
discovery about ulcer causing bacteria supports this connection?
9. What has Carol Spively discovered about stress in observing the macaque monkeys?
