Gen. Psych-Module 31,32
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Coronary heart disease | the clogging of the vessels that nourish the heart muscle; the leading cause of death in many developed 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 easygoing, relaxed people |
| Psychophysiological illness | literally, "mind-body" illness; any stress-related physical illness, such as hypertension and some headaches |
| Psychoneuroimmunology (PNI) | the study of how psychological, neural, and endocrine processes together affect the immune system and resulting health |
| Lymphocytes | the 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 other lymphatic tissues and attack cancer cells, viruses, and foreign substances |
| Aerobic exercise | sustained exercise that increases heart and lung fitness; may also alleviate depression and anxiety |
| Biofeedback | a system for electronically recording, amplifying, and feeding back information regarding a subtle physiological state, such as blood pressure or muscle tension |
| Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) | as yet unproven health care treatments intended to supplement (complement) or serve as alternatives to conventional medicine, and which typically are not widely taught in medical schools, used in hospitals, or reimbursed by insurance companies. When research shows a therapy to be safe and effective, it usually then becomes part of accepted medical practice |
| Stress | the process by which we perceive and respond to certain events, called stressors, that we appraise as threatening or challenging |
| General adaptation syndrome (GAS) | Selye's concept of the body's adaptive response to stress in three states - alarm, resistance, exhaustion |
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