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14 Cards in this Set
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stress |
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 (GAS) |
Hans Selye's concept of the body's adaptive responses to stress in three stages: alarm, resistance, and exhaustion |
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health pscyhology |
a subfield of psychology that provides psychology's contribution to behavioral medicine |
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behavioral medicine |
an interdisciplinary field that integrates behavioral and medicinal knowledge and applies that knowledge to health and disease |
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Type A |
Friedman and Rosenman's term for competitive, hard-driving, impatient, verbally aggressive, and anger-prone people |
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Type B |
Friedman and Rosenman's term for easygoing, relaxed people |
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Hopelessness |
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 |
Seligman's term for the loss of a sense of personal control over one's life; the hopelessness and passive resignation an anima or human learns when unable to avoid repeated aversive events |
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Personal control |
the ability to determine the events in one's life and thus to affect the consequence's; our sense of controlling our environment rather than feeling helpless |
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catecholamines |
the chemicals and epinephrine and norepinephrine which, when released from adrenal medulla, initiate the body's initial, rapid-acting response to stress |
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cognitive reappraisal |
the process by which potentially stressful events are constantly reevaluated |
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coping |
the cognitive behavioral and emotional way that people manage stressful situations |
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cortisol |
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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hypothalamic pituitary-adrenocortical system (HPAC) |
the body's delayed response to stress involving the secretion of corticosteroid hormones from the adrenal cortex |
