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| Study of the ways in which behavioral principles can be used to prevent illness and promote health |
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| The study of behavioral factors in medicine, physical illness, and medical treatment |
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| The study of behavioral factors in medicine, physical illness, and medical treatment |
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| A disease related to health-damanging personal habits |
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| Behaviors that increase the chances of disease, injury, or premature death |
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| Disease-prone personality |
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| A personality type associated with poor health; marked by persistent negative emotions, including anxiety, depression and hostility |
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| Program that teaches youths how to resist pressures to begin smoking (can also be applied to other drugs and health risks) |
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| A program that teachers stress reduction, self-protection, decision making, self-control, and social skills |
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| Community health campaign |
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| A community-wide education program that provides information about how to lessen risk factors and promote health |
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| A positive state of good health; more than the absence of disease |
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| The mental and physical condition that occurs when a person must adjust or adapt to the environment |
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| The physical response to stress, consisting mainly of bodily changes related to autonomic nervous system arousal |
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| Genreal adaptation syndrome (GAS) |
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| A series of bodily reactions to prolonged stress; occurs in three stages: alarm, resistance, and exhaustion |
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| First stage of the GAS, during which bodily resources are mobilized to cope with a stressor |
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| Second stage of the GAS, during which bodily adjustments to stress stabilize, but at a high physical cost |
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| Third stage of GAS, at which time the body's resources are exhausted and serious health consequences occur |
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| Study of the links among behavior, stress, disease, and the immune system |
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| A specific condition or event in the environment that challenges or threatens a person |
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| A stressful condition that occurs when a person must meet urgent external demands or expectations |
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| A job-related condition of mental, physical, and emotional exhaustion |
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| Deciding if a situation is relevant to oneself and if it is a threat |
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| Deciding how to cope wit ha threat or challenge |
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| Managing or controlling one's emotional reaction to a stressful or threatening situation |
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| Directly managing or remedying a stressful or threatening situation |
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| Extreme events that cause psychological injury or intense emotional pain |
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| A negative emotional state that occurs when one is prevented from reaching a goal |
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| Any response made with the intent of causing harm |
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| Redirecting aggression to a target other than the actual source of one's frustration |
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| Blaming a person or a group of people for conditions not of their making |
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| Reducing discomfort by leaving frustrating situations or by psychologically withdrawing from them |
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| A stressful condition that occurs when a person must choose between incompatible or contradictory alternatives |
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| Approach-approach conflict |
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| Choosing between two positive, or desirable alternatives |
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| Avoidance-avoidance conflict |
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| Choosing between two negative, undesirable, alternatives |
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| Approach-avoidance conflict |
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| Being attracted to and repelled by the same goal or activity |
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| Mixed positive and negative feelings or simultaneous attraction and repulsion |
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| Double approach-avoidance conflict |
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| Being simultaneously attracted to and repelled by each of two alternatives |
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| Multiple approach-avoidance conflict |
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| Being simultaneously attracted to and repelled by each of several alternatives |
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| Apprehension, dread, or uneasiness similar to fear but based on an unclear threat |
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| A habitual and often unconscious psychological process used to reduce anxiety |
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| A learned ability to overcome obstacles or to avoid punishment; learned passivity and inaction to aversive stimuli |
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| A state of despondency marked by feelings of powerlessness and hopelessness |
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| Reinforcement of responses that lead to mastery of a threat or control over one's environment |
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| Social Readjustment Rating Scale (SRRS) |
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| A scale that rates the impact of various life events on the likelihood of illness |
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| Any distressing, day-to-day annoyance |
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| Illnesses in which psychological factors contribute to bodily damage or to damaging changes in bodily functioning |
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| A person who complains about illnesses that appear to be imaginary |
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| Stress caused by the many changes and adaptations required when a person moves to a foreign culture |
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| Information given to a person about his or her ongoing bodily activities; aids voluntary regulation of bodily states |
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| A personality with an elevated risk of heart disease; characterized by time urgency, anger, and hostility |
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| All personality types other than Type A; a low cardiac-risk personality |
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| A personality style associated with superior stress resistance |
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| Close, positive relationships with other people |
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| The application of cognitive and behavioral strategies to reduce stress and improve coping skills |
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