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Question 0

General Adaption Syndrome (GAS)

Answer 0

Selye’s concept of the body’s adaptive response to stress in three states– alarm, resistance, exhaustion

Question 1

Stress

Answer 1

The process by which we perceive and respond to certain events, called stressors. That we appraise as threatening or challenging

Question 2

Coronary Heart Disease

Answer 2

The clogging of the vessels that nourish the heart muscle. The leading cause of death in many developed countries

Question 3

Type A

Answer 3

Friedman and Rosenmans term for competitive, hard driving, impatient, verbally aggressive, and anger prone people

Question 4

Type B

Answer 4

Friedman and Rosenmans term for easygoing, relaxed people

Question 5

Physchophysiological illness

Answer 5

Literally “mind body” illness such as hypertension and some headaches

Question 6

Physchoneuroimmunology

Answer 6

The study of how physcological, neural, and endocrine processes affect the immune system and resulting health

Question 7

Lymphocytes

Answer 7

The two types of white blood cells that are part of the body’s immune system. B lymphocytes form in the bone marrow and release antibodies that fight bacterial infections, T lymphocytes form in the thymus and other lymphatic tissue and attack cancer cells, viruses and foreign substances