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14 Cards in this Set
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Stress
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the process by which we perceive and respond to certain events called stressors that we apprise as threatening or challenging
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General adaptation syndrome (GAS)
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Hans Selye's concept of the body's adaptive responses to stress in three stages: alarm, resistance, and exhaustion
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Health Psychology
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a subfield of psychology that provides psychology's contribution to behavioral medicine
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Behavioral medicine
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an interdisciplinary field that integrates behavioral and medical knowledge and applies that knowledge to health and disease.
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Type A
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Friedman and Rosenman's term for competitive, hard-driving, impatient, verbally aggressive, and anger-prone people
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Type B
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Friedman and Rosenman's term for easy going, relaxed people.
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Hopelessness
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the sense that a bad situation will never change that results when people attribute the bad events to permanent, general aspects of their abilities or their environment.
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Learned Helplessness
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Seligman's term for the loss of a sense of personal control over one's life; the hopelessness and passive resignation an animal or human learns when unable to avoid repeated aversive events
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Personal Control
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the ability to determine the events in one's life and thus to affect the consequences; our sense of controlling our environment rather than feeling helpless.
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Catecholamines
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the chemicals epinephrine and norepinephrine which when released from the adrenal medulla, initiate the body's initial, rapid-acting response to stress.
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Cognitive Reappraisal
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the process by which potentially stressful events are constantly reevaluated.
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Coping
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the cognitive, behavioral, and emotional ways that people manage stressful situations
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Cortisol
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a hormone secreted by the adrenal glands that acts back on the hypothalamus and the pituitary to suppress the further release of CRH and ACTH
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Hypothalmic-pituitary-adrenocortical System (HPAC)
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The body's delayed response to stress involving the secretion of corticosteroid hormones from the adrenal cortex
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