AP Psychology Stress (David G. Myers ch. 14)
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 behavioral medicine | interdisciplinary field that integrates behavioral and medical knowledge and applies that knowledge to health/disease |
| health psychology | subfield that provide's psychology's contribution to behavioral medicine |
| stress | process by which we perceive and respond to certain events, called stressors, that we appraise as threatening/challenging |
| general adaptation syndrome (GAS) | selye's concept of the body's adaptive response to stress in 3 stages--alarm, resistance, exhaustion |
| coronary heart disease | clogging of vessels that nourish heart muscle; the leading cause of death in many developing countries |
| type A | Friedman and Rosenman's term for competitive, hard-driving, impatient, verbally aggressive, and anger-prone people |
| type B | Friedman and Rosenman's term for easy-going, relaxed people |
| psychophysiological illnesses | "mind-body" illness; any stress-related physiological illness, such as hypertension and some headaches |
| lymphocytes | 2 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 the in thymus and other lymphatic tissue and attack cancer cells, viruses, and foreign substances |
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