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An interdisciplinary field of science that integrates behavioral and medical knowledge and then applies it to health and illness
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BEHAVIORAL MEDICINE
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psychologists who study the effects of behavior and mental processes on health and illness
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HEALTH PSYCHOLOGISTS
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an interdisciplinary model that assumes that health and overall wellness are caused by a complex interaction of biological, psychological and sociocultural factors
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BIOPSYCHOSOCIAL MODEL
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our response to events that disturb, or threaten to disturb, our physical of psychological equilibrium
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STRESS
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external or internal events that challenge or threaten us
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STRESSORS
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Selye's model of stress, in which an event that threatens an organism's well-being (a stressor) leads to a three-stage bodily response-alarm, resistance and exhaustion
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GENERAL ADAPTATION SYNDROME (GAS)
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physical conditions, such as high blood pressure and migraine headaches, that are caused or aggravated by psychological factors such as stress
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PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGICAL DISORDERS
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a complex survillance system of specialized cells, tissues, and organs that is the body's primary defense against disease
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IMMUNE SYSTEM
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the interdisciplinary field that studies the relationship between psychological factors and physical illness
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PSYCHONEUROIMMUNOLOGY
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a coping strategy designed to reduce the stress by overcoming the source of the problem
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PROBLEM-FOCUSED COPING
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a coping strategy designed to manage the emotional reactions to stressors rather than to try to change the stressors themselves
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EMOTION-FOCUSED COPING
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a complex pattern of behaviors and emotions characterized by competitiveness, impatience, ambition, hostility and a hard-driving approach to life
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TYPE A behavior pattern
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a pattern of behaviors and emotions characterized by a patient, relaxed, easygoing approach to life, with little hurry or hostility
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TYPE B behavior pattern
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a set of personality traits marked by a sense of commitment, challenge, and control that promotes resistancec to stress and illness
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HARDINESS
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the habitual tendency to explain uncontrollable negative events as caused by one's own stable personal qualities, which affect all aspects of one's life. Pessimistic style - associated with health problems and premature death
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PESSIMISTIC EXPLANATORY STYLE
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habitual tendency to explain uncontrollable negative events as caused by temporary factors external to oneself that do not affect other aspects of one's life - optimistic style associated with good health and longevity
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OPTIMISTIC EXPLANATORY STYLE
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the helpful coping resorces provided by friends and other people
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SOCIAL SUPPORT
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the excessive accumulation of body fat. medically, a person with a BMI over 30 is considered this
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OBESITY
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a person's attitudes toward her or his body
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BODY ESTEEM
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an eating disorder in which a person weighs less than 85% of her or his expected weight but still expresses an intense fear of gaining weight or becoming fat
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ANOREXIA NERVOSA
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an eating disorder in which a person engages in recurrent episodes of binge eating followed by drastic measures to purge the body of the consumed calories
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BULIMIA
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sustained exercise that increases heart and lung fitness
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AEROBIC EXERCISE
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a stress-reducing technique that involves the successive tensing and relaxing of each of the major groups of the body
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PROGRESSIVE RELAXATION
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a predominance of positive over negative affect (emotion) ad satisfaction with life as a whole
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HAPPINESS
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