CCP Intro To Psychology Chapter 14 Flashcards
A subfield of psychology that emphasizes psychology’s role in establishing and maintaining health and preventing and treating illness.
Health psychology
A subfield of psychology that emphasizes psychology’s role in establishing and maintaining health and preventing and treating illness.
Behavioral medicine
Individuals are not yet ready to think about changing and may not be aware that they have a problem that needs to be changed
Precontemplation
Practices that have an impact on physical well-being.
Health behaviors
Individuals are preparing to take action
Preparation/determination
Individuals commit to making a behavioral change and enact a plan
Action/willpower
The complex set of interactions among the hypothalamus, the pituitary gland, and the adrenal glands that regulate various body processes and control reactions to stressful events.
Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis (HPA axis)
Selye’s term for the common effects of stressful demands on the body, consisting of three stages: alarm, resistance, and exhaustion.
General adaptation syndrome (alarm, resistance, exhaustion)
A new field of scientific inquiry that explores connections among psychological factors (such as attitudes and emotions), the nervous system, and the immune system.
Psychoneuroimmunology
A cluster of characteristics—including being excessively competitive, hard-driven, impatient, and hostile—that is related to a higher incidence of heart disease.
Type A behavior pattern
A cluster of characteristics—including being relaxed and easygoing—that is related to a lower incidence of heart disease.
Type B behavior pattern
A cluster of characteristics—including being generally distressed, having negative emotions, and being socially inhibited—that is related to adverse cardiovascular outcomes.
Type D behavior pattern
A regimen that teaches individuals how to appraise stressful events, how to develop skills for coping with stress, and how to put these skills into use in everyday life.
Stress management programs
Managing taxing circumstances, expending effort to solve life’s problems, and seeking to master or reduce stress.
Coping
Individuals’ interpretation of the events in their life as harmful, threatening, or challenging and their determination of whether they have the resources to cope effectively with the events.
Cognitive appraisal