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Stress and Health
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Psychology
12th Grade
03/08/2006

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Behavioral Medicine
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An interdiciplinary field that integrates behavioral and medical knoledge and applies that knowledge to health and disease.
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Health Psychology
Definition
A subfield of psychology that provides psychologys contribution to behavioral medicine.
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Stress
Definition
the process by which we percieve and respond to certain events called stressors, that we appraise as threatening or challenging.
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General Adaption Syndrome (GAS)
Definition
Hans Selye's concept of the body's adaptive response to stress in three stages: alarm, resistance, exhaustion
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Coronary Heart Disease
Definition
clogging of the vessels that nourish the heart muscle; leading cause of death in many developing countries.
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Type A (personality)
Definition
Friedman and Rosenman's term for competitive, hard-driving, impatient, verbally agressive, and anger prone people.
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Type A (personality)
Definition
Friedman and Rosenman's term for competitive, hard-driving, impatient, verbally agressive, and anger prone people.
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Type B (personality
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Friedman and Rosenman's term for easygoing, relaxed people.
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psychophisiological illness
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literally "mind-body" illness; any stress related illness such as hypertension and headaches
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lymphocytes
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two types of white blood cells that are part of the immune system; B lymphocytes form in the bone marrow and release antibodes, T lymphocytes form in the thymus and attack cancers, viruses and foreign substances.
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Aerobics
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Sustained excersize that increases heart and lung fitness, may also alleviate depression and anxiety
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biofeedback
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a system of electronically recording, amplifying, and feeding back of information regarding a subtle physiological state
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contemporary and alternative medicine
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unproven health care treatments not taught widely in medical schools, not used in hospitals, and not usually reimbursed by insurance companies
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