Psychology Eighth Edition Chapter 14 Vocab Flashcards
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| 725321520 | behavioral medicine | an interdisciplinary field that integrates behavioral and medical knowledge and applies that knowledge to health and disease | |
| 725321521 | health psychology | a subfield of psychology that provides psychology's contribution to behavioral medicine | |
| 725321522 | stress | the process by which we percieve and respond to certain events, called stressors, that we appraise as threatening or challenging | |
| 725321523 | general adaptation syndrome GAS | Selye's concept of the body's adaptive response to stress in three stages- alarm, resistance, exhaustion | |
| 725321524 | coronary heart disease | the clogging of the vessels that nourish the heart muscle; the leading cause of death in many developed countries. | |
| 725321525 | type A | Friedman and Rosenman's term for competitive, hard-driving, impatient, verbally aggressive, and anger-prone people | |
| 725321526 | type B | Friedman and Rosenman's term for easygoing, relaxed people | |
| 725321527 | psychophysiological illness | literally "mindbody" illness; any stress-related physical illness, such as hypertension and some headaches | |
| 725321528 | lymphocytes | the two types of white blood cells that are part of the body's immune system | |
| 725321529 | coping | alleviating stress using emotional, cognitive, or behavioral methods | |
| 725321530 | problem-focused coping | attempting to alleviate stress directly- by changing the stressor or the way we interact with that stressor | |
| 725321531 | emotion- focused coping | attempting to alleviate stress by avoiding or ignoring a stressor and attending to emotional needs related to one's stress reaction | |
| 725321532 | aerobic exercise | sustained exercise that increases heart and lung fitness; may also alleviate depression and anxiety | |
| 725321533 | biofeedback | a system for electronically recording, amplifying, and feeding back information regarding a subtle physiological state, such as blood pressure or muscle tension | |
| 725321534 | complementary and alternative medicine | encompasses such methods as acupuncture, massage therapy, homeopathy, spiritual healing, herbal remedies, chiropractic, and aromatherapy |