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| Field that integrates behavioral and medical knowledge and applies it to health and disease |
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| Subfield that provides psychology's contribution to behavioral medicine |
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| Process by which we perceive and respond to certain events (stressors) that we view as threatening/challenging |
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| General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS) |
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| Selye's concept of the body's adaptive response to stress in three stages: alarm, resistance, exhaustion |
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| Clogging of vessels that nourish the heart muscle |
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| Friedman's and Rosenman's term for competitive, hard-driving, impatient, verbally aggressive and anger-prone people |
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| Friedman's and Rosenman's term for easygoing, relaxed people |
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| Psychophysiological Illness |
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| Any stress-related physical illness, such as hypertension and headache |
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| Psychoneuroimmunology (PNI) |
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| Study of how psychological, neural, and endocrine processes affect the immune system |
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| Two types of white blood cells that are part of the immune system: B types form in the bone marrow and release antibodies, T types form in the thymus and attach foreign substances (viruses, cancer, etc.) |
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| Alleviating stress using emotional, behavioral, or cognitive methods |
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| Changing a stressor directly |
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| Avoiding or ignoring a stressor |
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| System for electronically recording and amplifying subtle physiological information |
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| Complementary and Alternative Medicine |
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| Unproven, unconventional medicine |
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