Myers 7th Edition - Chapter 14 Vocabulary
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| Behavioral medicine | An interdisciplinary field that integrates behavioral and medical knowledge and applies that knowledge to health and disease.
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| Health Psychology | A subfield of psychology that provides psychology's contribution to behavioral medicine.
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| Stress | The 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 (GAS) | Selye's concept of the body adaptive response to stress in three stages - alarm, resistance, exhaustion.
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| Coronary heart disease | The clogging of the vessels that nourish the heart muscle; the leading cause of death in many developed countries.
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| Type A | Friedman and Rosenman's term for competitive, hard-driving, impatient, verbally aggressive, and anger-prone people.
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| Type B | Friedman and Rosenman's term for easygoing, relaxed people.
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| Psychophysiological illness | Literally, "mind-body" illness; any stress-related physical illness, such as hypertension and some headaches. Note: This is distinct from hypochondriasis - misinterpreting normal physical sensations as symptoms of a disease.
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| Lymphocytes | Two types of white blood cells that are part of the immune system: B lymphocytes form in the bone marrow and release antibodies that fight bacterial infections: T lymphocytes form in the thymus and attack cancer cells, viruses and foreign substances.
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| Aerobic exercise | Sustained exercise that increases heart and lung fitness; may also alleviate depression and anxiety.
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| Biofeedback | A system for electronically recording, amplifying, and feeding back information regarding a subtle physiological state, such as blood pressure or muscle tension.
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| 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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