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Nason Chapter 14
Stress and Health Vocab
| Vocab Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| Behavioral Medicine | an interdisciplinary field that integrates behaviorial and medical knowledge and applies that knowledge to health and disease |
| Health Psychology | a subfield of psychology that provides psychology's contribution to behavioral medicine |
| Stress | the process by which we percieve and respond to current events, called stressors, that we appraise as threatening or challenging |
| General Adaptive Syndrome (GAS) | Selye's concept of the body's adaptive response to stress in 3 stages- alarm, resistance, and exhaustion |
| Coronary Heart Disease | the clogging of the vessels that nourish the heart muscle; the leading cause of death in many developed countries |
| Type A | Friedman and Roseman's term for competitive, hard-driving, impatient, verbally aggressive, and anger-prone people |
| Type B | Friedman and Rosenman's term for easy-going, relaxed people |
| Psychophysiological Illness | literally "mind-body" illness; any stress-related physical illness, such as hypertension and some headaches- distinct from hypochondriasis |
| Lymphocytes | the two types of white blood cells that are part of the body's immune system. B's form in the bone marrow and releases antibodies that fight bacterial infections. T's form in the thymus and attack cancer cells, viruses, and foreign substances |
| Coping | alleviating stress using emotional, cognitive, or behavioral methods |
| Problem-Focused Coping | attempting to alleviate stress directly- by changing the stressor or the way we interact with the stressor |
| Emotion-Focused Coping | attempting to alleviate stress by avoiding or ignoring a stressor and attending to emotional needs related to one's stress reaction |
| Aerobic Exercise | sustained exercise that increases heart and lung fitness; may alleviate dpression and anxiety |
| Biofeedback | a system for electronically recording, amplifying, and feeding back information regarding a subtle physiological state |
| Complementary and Alternative Medicine | 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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