| 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 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 stages -alarm, resistance, exhaustion |
| coronary heart disease | the clogging of the vessels that nourish the hear mscle; the leading cause of death in many developed countries |
| Type A (personality) | Friedman and Rosenman's term for competitive, hard-driving, impatient, verbally aggresive, and anger-prone people. |
| Type B | Friedman and Rosenman's term for easygoing, relaxed people |
| psychophysiolgical illness | literally, "mind-body" illness; any stress-related physical illness, such as hypertension and some headaches. |
| B lymphocytes | form in the bone marrow and release antibodies that fight bacterial infections |
| T lymphocytes | (white blood cell) formed in thymus and attacks cancer cells, viruses, and foreign substances |
