Chapter 17: Stress and Health
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12 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Behavioural Medicine | Integrating behavioural and medical knowledge |
| Health psychology | Provides psychology's contribution to behavioural medicine |
| Stress | It is the process by which we appraise and cope with environmental threats and challenges |
| General Adaptation Syndrome | The body's adaptive response to stress was so general, like a single burglar alarm that sounds no matter what intrudes |
| Burnout | Mental, physical, and emotional exhaustion leads to this |
| Coronary Heart Disease | The closing of the vessels that nourish the heart muscle |
| Psychophysiological Illnesses | Illnesses such as hypertension and some headaches that are stress-related |
| Lymphocytes | White blood cells |
| Aerobic Exercise | Sustained exercise that increases heart and lung fitness |
| Biofeedback | A system of recording, amplifying, and feeding back info about subtle physiological responses |
| Type A | Reactive, competitive, hard-driving, impatient, time-conscious, supermotivatd, verbally aggressive, and easily angered |
| Type B | More easygoing personality |
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