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Interdisciplinary field that applies behavioral and medical knowledge to the treatment of disease/promotion of health

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Behavioral Medicine

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Subfield of psychology that studies how health and illness are influenced by emotions, stress, personality, lifestyle, and other factors

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Health Psychology

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Process by which people perceive and react to stressors or events they perceive as threatening or challenging

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Stress

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Positive form of stress that pushes people to achieve or accomplish goals

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Eustress

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Negative stress that can wear down on the body

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Disress

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Condition or even that challenges or threatens a person

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Stressors

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Low intensity stressors that can be external (finding a job) or personal (finding motivation to do homework)

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Frustrations

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First step which looks at the situation and ask is it revelt or threatening

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Primary Appraisal of Stress

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Person considers the resources for copying or responding to the stressor

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Secondary Appraisal of Stress

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Occurs when something dangerous or life threatening occurs and people respond in a way that prepare them to fight or flee

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Fight or Flight Response

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Hormones that prepares the body to respond to stress

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Adrenaline

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“the stress hormone” that is secreted to deal with chronic stress

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Cotisol

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3 stage sequence of bodily reaction to stress: Alarm, Resistance, Exhaustion

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General Adaptation Syndrome

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Leading cause of death in the US, result from clogging the coronary arteries and the reduction in blood and oxygen supply to the heart muscle

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Coronary Heart Disease

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Term for pattern in a person of competitive, impatient, verbally aggressive, and anger-prone

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Type A

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Term for pattern in a person that is easygoing

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Type B

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Act of facing and dealing with problems and stressors, can be problemed, emotion, and appraisal focuses

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Coping

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Scale that measures the life stress using LCU

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Social Readjustment Rating Scale

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Scale that measures the life stress using LCU

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Social Readjustment Rating Scale

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Assign a numerical value to the level of stress

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Life Changing Units (LCU)

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Illness such as hypertensions and headaches that is liked to stress rather than a physical disorder

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Psychophysiological Illness

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System for electronically recording, amplifying, and tracking information regarding a subtle physiological state

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Biofeedback

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People often provided support to others and bond with and seek support from others

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Tend-and-Befriend

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