Stress and Health
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| 7767066365 | Behavioral Medicine | An interdisciplinary field that integrates behavioral and medical knowledge and applies that knowledge to health and disease. |  | 0 |
| 7767066366 | Health Psychology | A subfield of psychology that provides psychology's contribution to behavioral medicine. |  | 1 |
| 7767066367 | Stress | process where we perceive and respond to events that we see as threatening or challenging. Depends more on how we assess events than events themselves. |  | 2 |
| 7767066368 | General Adaptation Level Syndrome (GAS) | Selye's concept of the body's adaptive response to stress in three stages - alarm, resistance, exhaustion. |  | 3 |
| 7767066369 | Coronary Heart Disease | The clogging of the vessels that nourish the heart muscle; the leading cause of death in many developed countries. |  | 4 |
| 7767066370 | Type A | Friedman and Rosenman's term for competitive, hard-driving, impatient, verbally aggressive, and anger-prone people. |  | 5 |
| 7767066371 | Type B | Friedman and Rosenman's term for easygoing, relaxed people. |  | 6 |
| 7767066372 | Psychophysiological Illness | "mind-body" illness; any stress-related physical illness, such as hypertension and some headaches. |  | 7 |
| 7767066373 | Lymphocytes | immune system's white blood cells; B from bone marrow (fight bacteria with antibodies); T from thymus (attack cancer, viruses, and foreign cells) |  | 8 |
| 7767087772 | coping | alleviating stress using emotional, cognitive, or behavioral methods |  | 9 |
| 7767090554 | problem-focused coping | attempting to alleviate stress directly by changing the stressor or the way we interact with that stressor |  | 10 |
| 7767101815 | emotion-focused coping | Attempting to alleviate stress by avoiding or ignoring a stressor and attending to emotional needs related to one's stress reaction |  | 11 |
| 7767066374 | Aerobic Exercise | Sustained exercise that increases heart and lung fitness; may also alleviate depression and anxiety. |  | 12 |
| 7767066375 | Biofeedback | system for electronically recording, amplifying, and feeding back information regarding a subtle physiological state, such as muscle tension. |  | 13 |
| 7767066376 | Complementary and alternative medicine | Unproven health care treatments not taught widely in medical schools, not used in hospitals, and not usually reimbursed by insurance companies. |  | 14 |
