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| an interdisciplinary field that integrates behavioral and medical knowledge and applies knowledge to health and disease. |
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| subfield of psychology that provides psychology's contribution to behavioral medicine |
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| process by which we perceive and respond to certain events, called stressors, that we appraise as threatening or challenging. |
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| general adaptation syndrome |
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| (GAS) Selye's concept of the body's adaptive response to stress in three stages- alarm, resistance and exhaustion. |
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| clogging of the vessels that nourish the heart muscle; leading cause of death in many developed countries. |
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| friedman and Rosenman's term for competitive, hard working, impatient, verbally aggressive and anger prone people. |
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| Friedman and Rosenman's Term for easygoing, relaxed people. |
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| psychophysiological illness |
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| literally a mind-body illness; any stress related physical illness, such as hypertension and headaches. |
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| two types of white blood cells that are part of body's immune system |
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| form in the bone marrow and release antibodies that fight infection |
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| form in thymus and attack cancer cells, viruses and foreign substances |
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| sustained exercise that increases heart and lung fitness; alleviates depression and anxiety |
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| system for electronically recording, amplifying, and feeding back info regarding a subtle phsiological state such as blood pressure or muscle tension |
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| Physiologist who confirmed that stress response is part of a unified mind-body system. deemed the system fight or flight. saw that epinephrine (adrenaline) and norepinephrine (noradrenaline) enter blood stream during stress. |
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| Cerebral Cortex System of stress |
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| outer part of adrenal gland secretes the stress hormone cortisol. |
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| common response to loved one's death |
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| Withdraw, Pull back and conserve energy |
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| scientist that injected rats with ovarian hormone extract and detected enlargement of the adrenal cortex, shrinkage of the thymus gland, and bleeding ulcers. also studied other animals with various other stressors such as electric shock, surgical trauma, and immobilizing restraint. discovered general adaptation syndrome. |
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| catastrophes, life changes and daily hassles |
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| the longer one has it; the longer they live |
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| predicts mortality over equality |
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| optimists are likely to live longer than pessimists |
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| causes arthritis and allergic reactions |
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| allowing easier infection and disease |
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| release tryptophan in the blood which raise seratonin and helps us feel relaxed, sleepy, and less sensitive to pain. |
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