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meyers 11
Chapter 11: Emotions, Stress, and Health
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| stress | the process by which we perceive and respond to certain events, called stressors, that we appraise as threatening or challenging |
| General adaption syndrome (GAS) | Selye's concept of the body's adaptive response to stress in three states - alarm, resistance, exhaustion |
| What events provoke stress responses? | Catastrophes, significant life changes, daily hassles |
| 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 Rosenman's term for competitive, hard-driving, impatient, verbally aggressive, and anger-prone people |
| Type B | Friedman and Rosenman's term for easygoing, relaxed people |
| psychophysiological illness | literally, "mind-body" illness; any stress related physical illness, such as hypertension and some headaches |
| psychoneuroimmunology (PNI) | the study of how psychological, neural, and endocrine processes together affect the immune system and resulting health |
| lymphocytes | the two types of white blood cells that are part of the body's immune system; T and B |
| What tactics can we use to manage stress and reduce stress-related ailments? | Aerobic exercise, biofeedback, relaxation, and meditation |
| Five Domains of complementary and alternative medicine | alternitive medical systems, mind-body interventions, biologically based therapies, manipulative and body-based methods, energy therapies |
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