module 43

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

General adaptation syndrome (GAS)

Answer 2

Selye’s concept of the body’s adaptive response to stress in three phases— alarm, resistance, exhaustion.

Question 3

Tend-and-befriend response

Answer 3

under stress, people (especially women) often provide support to others (tend) and bond with and seek support from others (befriend).

Question 4

Psychoneuroimmunology

Answer 4

the study of how psychological, neural, and endocrine processes together affect the immune system and resulting health.

Question 4

Health psychology

Answer 4

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

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 6

Type B

Answer 6

Friedman and Rosenman’s term for easygoing, relaxed people.

Question 6

Catharsis

Answer 6

the idea that “releasing” aggressive energy (through action or fantasy) relieves aggressive urges.

Question 7

Walter Cannon

Answer 7

confirmed that the stress response is part of a unified mind-body system.

Question 8

Robert Sapolsky

Answer 8

a biologist that explained how the two systems work in fight-or-flight

Question 9

Hans Selye

Answer 9

A Canadian scientist that extended Cannons findings and proposed that the body’s adaptive system response to stress is so general that like a single burglar alarm it sounds no matter what intrudes