Chapter 14 Stress and Health
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19 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 behavioral medicine | interdisciplinary field that integrates behavioral and medical knowledge and applies that knowledge to health and disease |
| health psychology | subfield of psychology that provides psychology's contribution to behavioral medicine |
| stress | process by which we percieve and respond to certain events, called stressors, that we appraise as threatening or challenging |
| general adaptation syndrome (GAS) | hans selye's concept of the body's adaptive response to stress in 3 stages alarm, resistance and exhaustion (ARE) |
| coronary heart disease | clogging of the vessels that nourish heart muscle; 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 easy going, relaxed people |
| psychological illness | literally "mind body" illness; any stress related physical illness, such as hypertension and some headaches |
| hypochondriasis | misinterpreting normal physical sensations as symptoms of a disease |
| 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 other lymphatic tissue and attack cancer cells, viruses and foreign substances |
| macrophage | "big eater" identifies, pursues and ingests harmful invaders |
| coping | alleviating stress using emotional, cognitive or behavioral methods |
| AIDS | acquired immune deficiency syndrome |
| problem focused coping | attempting to alleviate stress directly by changing the sressor or the way we interact with that stressor |
| emotion focused coping | attempting to alleviate stress by avoiding or ignoring a stressor and attending to emotional needs related to one's stress reaction |
| aerobic exercise | sustained exercise that increases heart and lung fitness; may also alleviate depression and anxiety |
| biofeedback | system for electronically recording, amplifying and feeding back info regarding a subtle physiological state, such as blood pressure or muscle tension |
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