psych dale ch. 17
Terms
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- behavioral medicine
- an interdisciplinary field that integrates behavioral and medical knowledge and applies that knowledge to health and disease
- health psychology
- a subfield of psychology that provides psychology's contribution to behavioral medicine
- stress
- the process by which we percieve and respond to certain events (stressors) that we appraise as threatening or challenging
- general adaptation syndrome (GAS)
- Selye's concept of the body's adaptive response to stress in 3 stages: alarm, resistance, exhaustion
- burnout
- physical, emotional, and mental exhaustion brought on by persisten job-related stress
- coronary heart disease
- the clogging of the vessels that nourish the heart muscle; the leading cause of death in US
- Type A
- Friedman and Rosenman's term for competitive, hard-driving, impatient, verbally agressive, and anger-prone people
- Type B
- Friedman and Rosenman's term for easygoing, relaxed people
- psychophysiological illness
- "mind-body" illness; any stress-related physical illness (i.e. headaches)
- lymphocytes
- two types of white blood cells that are part of the body's immune system
- B lymphocytes
- form in the bone marrow and release antibodies that fight bacterial infections
- T lymphocytes
- form in the thymus and, among other duties, attack cancer cells, viruses, and foreign substances