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Health Psychology |
Study of the ways behavioral principles can be used to prevent illness and promote health |
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Behavioral Psychology |
Study of behavioral factors in medicine, physical illness, and medical treatment |
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Lifestyle Disease |
A disease related to health-damaging personal habits |
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Behavioral Risk Factors |
Behaviors that increase the chances of disease, injury, or premature death |
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Disease-Prone Personality |
A personality type associated with poor health; marked by persistant emotions, including anxiety, depression, and hostility |
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Refusal Skills Training |
Program that teaches youths how to resist pressures to begin smoking, for example. |
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Stressor |
Something inducing stress |
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Primary Appraisal |
Is a situation relavant to me? Is it a threat? |
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Secondary Appraisal |
How do I cope with the threat or challenge? |
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Stress |
The mental and physical condition that occurs when a person must adjust or adapt to the environment |
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Frustration |
A negative emotional state that occurs when one os prevented from reaching a goal |
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Conflict |
A stressful condition that occurs when a person must choose between incompatible or contradictory alternatives |
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Defense Mechanism |
A habitual and often unconscious psychological process used to reduce anxiety |
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Learned Helplessness |
A learned inability to overcome obstacles |
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Anxiety |
Tention, uneasiness, apprehensiveness, and feeling vulnerable are all characteristics of... |
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Denial |
Refusal to believe reality |
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Repression |
Traumatic experiences are blunted in memory |
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Reaction Formation |
Projecting a positive emotion in place of feeling a negative emotion |
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Projection |
______ lowers stress by emphasising negative traits in others |
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Rationalization |
Offering excuses |
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Mastery Training |
Reinforcement of responses that lead to mastery of threat, or control of one's environment |
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Depression |
A negative opinion of self, self blame, grim future, and being overwhelmed are all characteristics of... |
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Social Readjustment Rating Scale (SRRS) |
A scale that rates the impact of various life events on the likelihood of illness |
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Life Change Units (LCU's) |
Numerical values assigned to each life event on the SRRS. |
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Psychomatic Disorders |
Illnesses in which psychological factors contribute to bodily damage or to damaging changes in bodily functioning |
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Hypochondriac |
A person who complains about illnesses that appear to be imaginary |
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Biofeedback |
Information given to a person about his or her ongoing bodily activities; aids voluntary regulation of bodily states |
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Type A Personality |
A personality type with an elevated risk of heart disease; characterixed by time urgency, anger, and hostility |
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Type B Personality |
All personality types other than Type A; a low cardiac-risk personality where one sees life as a challenge, not a threat |
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Hardy Personality |
A personality stule associated with superior stress resistance |
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Immune System |
A system that mobilizes bodily defenses (such as white blood cells) aainst invading microbes and other disease agents |
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Stress Management |
The application of behavioral strategies to redue stress and improve coping skills |
