Chapter 14 - Stress&Health

Question 1

Behavioral Medicine

Answer 1

An interdisciplinary field that integrates behavioral and medicinal knowledge and applies that knowledge to health and disease.

Question 2

Health Psychology

Answer 2

A subfield of psychology that provides psychology’s contribution to behavioral medicine.

Question 3

Stress

Answer 3

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

Question 4

General Adaptation Syndrome

Answer 4

Seyles concept of the body’s adaptive response to stress in three stages - alarm, resistance, exhaustion

Question 5

Coronary Heart Disease

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Type A

Answer 6

Friedman and Rosenman’s term for competitive, hard-driving, impatient, verbally aggressive, and anger-prone people.

Question 7

Type B

Answer 7

Friedman and Rosenman’s term for easygoing and relaxed people

Question 8

Psychophysiological Illness

Answer 8

Literally, “mind-body” illness; any stress-related physical illness, such as hypertension and some headaches.

Question 9

Lymphocytes

Answer 9

The two types of white blood cells that are part of the body’s immune system. “B Lympochytes” form in the bone marrow and release antibodies that fight bacterial infections. “T Lymphocytes”