Flashcards in Chapter 14 - Vocabulary Deck (15)
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Behavioral Medicine
An interdisciplinary field that integrates behavioral and medical knowledge and applies that knowledge to health and disease.
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Health Psychology
A sub-field of psychology that provides psychology's contribution to behavioral medicine.
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Stress
The process by which we perceive and respond to certain events, called stressors, that we appraise as threatening or challenging.
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General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS)
Selye's concept of the body's adaptive response to stress in three stages - Alarm, Resistance, and Exhaustion.
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Coronary Heart Disease
The clogging of the vessels that nourish the heart muscle; the leading cause of death in many developed countries.
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Type A
Friedman and Rosenman's term for competitive, hard-driving, impatient, verbally aggressive, and anger-prone people.
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Type B
Friedman and Rosenman's term for easygoing, relaxed people.
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Psychophysiological Illness
Literally "Mind-Body" illness, any stress-related physical illness, such as hypertension and headaches.
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Lymphocytes
The two types of white blood cells that are part of the body's immune system. B lymphocytes form in bone marrow and release antibodies that fight bacterial infections. T lymphocytes form in the thymus and other lymphatic tissue and attack cancer cells, viruses, and foreign substances.
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Coping
Alleviating stress using emotional, cognitive, and behavioral methods.
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Problem-Focused Coping
Attempting to alleviate stress directly- by changing the stressor or the way we interact with the stressor.
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Emotion-Focused Coping
Attempting to alleviate stress by avoiding or ignoring a stressor and attending to emotional needs related to one's stress reaction.
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Aerobic Exercise
Sustained exercise that increases heart and lung fitness; may also alleviate depression and anxiety.
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Biofeedback
A system for electronically recording, amplifying, and feeding back information regarding a subtle physiological state, such as blood pressure or muscle tension.
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