Izzy's AP Psych Ch 14

12505055	behavioral medicine	An interdiciplinary field that integrates behavioral and medical knowledge and applies that knowledge to health and disease
12505056	health psychology	A subfield of psychology that provides psychology's contribution to behavioral medicine
12505057	stress	The processes by which we perceive and respond to certain events, called stressors, that we appraise as threatening or challenging
12505058	general adaptation syndrome	Salye's concept of the body's adaptive responses to stress in three stages - alarm, resistance, exhaustion
12505059	coronary heart disease	The clogging of the vessels that nourish the heart muscle; the leading cause of death in many developed countries
12505060	Type A	Friedman and Rosenman's term for competitive, hard-driving, impatient, verbally aggressive, and anger-prone people
12505061	Type B	Friedman and Rosenman's term for easygoing, relaxed people
12505062	psychophysical illness	Any stress-related physical illness
12505063	lymphocytes	The two types of white blood cells that are part of the body's immune system
12505064	aerobic exercise	Sustained exercise that increases heart and lung fitness; may also alleviate depression and anxiety
12505065	biofeedback	A system for electronically recording, amplifying, and feeding back information regarding a subtle physiological state
12505066	complementary and alternative medicine	Unproven health care treatments not taught widely in medical schools, not used in hospitals, and usually reimbursed by insurance companies