AP Psychology: Stress and Health Flashcards

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