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| 6682142824 | behavioral medicine | an interdiciplinary field that integrates behavioral and medical knowledge and applies it to disease | 0 | |
| 6682142825 | health psychology | a subfield of psychology that provides psychology's contribution to behavioral medicine. (finds out what attitudes and behaviors prevent illness | 1 | |
| 6682142826 | stress | the PROCESS by which we preceive and respond to events that we appraise as threatening or challenging; how we cope with them; | 2 | |
| 6682142827 | General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS) | Selye's concept of the body's adaptive response to stress in three stages: alarm, resistance, exhaustion. | 3 | |
| 6682142828 | Coronary Heart Disease | clogging of vessels that nourish the heart muscle; leading cause of death in many developed countries; can be caused by hypertension, smoking, obesity, family history, hi-fat diet, physical inactivity, elevated cholesterol level and stress. | 4 | |
| 6682142829 | Type A | Friedman and Rosenman's term for competitive, hard-driving, impatient, verbally aggressive and anger prone people. | 5 | |
| 6682142830 | Type B | Friedman and Rosenmans's term for easy going, relaxed people. | 6 | |
| 6682142832 | psychophysiological illness | "mind-body" illness; any stress related physical illness such as hypertension and headaches. | 7 | |
| 6682142833 | cope | alleviating stress using emotional, cognitive or behavioral methods | 8 | |
| 6682142834 | problem-focused coping | attempting to alleviate stress directly by changing the stressor or the way we interact with it. (used when we feel we have a sense of control over a situation) | 9 | |
| 6682142835 | emotion-focused coping | alleviating stress by avoiding or ignoring a stressor and attending to emotional needs realted to one's stress reation. | 10 | |
| 6682142836 | aerobic exercise | sustained exercies that increases heart and lung fitness; can alleviate depression and anxiety | 11 | |
| 6682142837 | biofeedback | a system for electrically recording, amplifying and feeding back information regarding a subtle physiological state such as blood pressure or muscle tension; can help a person learn how to control a physiological response. | 12 | |
| 6682142840 | stressor | something that causes stress | 13 | |
| 6682142841 | stress reaction | physical and emotional response to a stressor | 14 | |
| 6682142842 | stress response 1 | sympathetic nervous system triggers release of epinephrine, and norepinephrine, increases heart rate, increased respiration, slows digestion, blood to skeletal muscles, releases glucose. (fight or flight) | 15 | |
| 6682142843 | stress response 2 | cerebral cortex demands (via hypothalamus & pituitary gland): adrenal glands secrete glucocorticoid-stress hormones like cortisol. | 16 | |
| 6682142844 | alarm reaction | phase 1 of GAS; sudden activation sympathetic nervous system; mobilize resources. | 17 | |
| 6682142845 | resistance | phase 2 of GAS; stress resistance remains because of continued sympathetic nervous system functions; cope with stressor | 18 | |
| 6682142846 | exhaustion | phase 3 of GAS; reserves depleted; body cannot fight off stress any longer | 19 |
