Chapter 14 Flashcards
Health psychology
Subfield of psychology providing psychologies contribution to behavioral medicine
Behavioral medicine
In interdisciplinary field that integrates behavior in medical knowledge in the plies that to health and diseases
Stress
The process by which we perceive and respond to certain events, we appraise each stress as threatening or challenging
Glucocorticoid
Stress hormones that help trigger fight or flight
Cortisol
A specific type of stress hormone
Han Selye
40 years of research, define stress as the major concepts it is today
Developed GAS
General adaption syndrome
Selye’s concept of the bodies adaptive response to stress, occurs in three stages – alarm, resistance, and exhaustion
Alarm reaction
Send an activation of the sympathetic nervous system heart rate spikes blood is diverted to skeletal muscles feel faintness
Resistance
Fight, temperature blood-pressure respiration remain high, sudden outpouring of hormones, is continued this will deplete your bodies reserves
Exhaustion
More vulnerable to illness or even collapse and death
Coronary heart disease
Clogging the vessels that nurse the heart muscle, leading cause of death in many developed countries
Type a personality
Most reactive competitive hard driving inpatient time conscience is super motivated verbally aggressive and easily angered
Type B personality
People were more easy-going
Type a personality people are much more prone to heart problems than…
Type b
Psychophysiological illness
Literally a mind – body illness, any stress related physical illness
For example, hypertension and headaches
Lymphocytes
Two types of white blood cells that are a part of the immune system
Type B lymphocytes
Form in the bone marrow and release antibiotics that fight bacterial infections
Type T lymphocytes
Form in thymus and other lymphatic tissues, attack cancer cells, viruses, and other foreign substances
Coping
Alleviating stress using emotional cognitive or behavioral methods
Problem focused coping
Attempting to alleviate stress directly, changing the stressor or the way we interact with that stressor
Emotion focused coping
Alleviate stress by avoiding or ignoring a stressor and attending to emotional needs related to one stress reaction
Aerobic exercise
Sustained exercise that increases heart and lung fitness, also can alleviate depression and Anxiety
Biofeedback
A system of recording amplifying and feeding back information about a subtle physiological response
Complementary and alternative medicine
Focuses on methods such as acupuncture, massage therapy, homeopathic, spiritual healing, herbal remedies, chiropractic, and aromatherapy, does not focus on prescription drugs
