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19 Cards in this Set
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health psychology
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the study of physical health and illness by psychologists from various areas of specialization
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stress
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an unpleasan state of arousal in which people perceive the demands of an event as taxing or exceeding their ability to satisfy or alter those demands
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appraisal
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the process by which people make judgments about the demands of potentially stressful eveents and their ability to meet those demands
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coping
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efforts to reduce stress
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stressor
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anything that causes stress
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posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
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a condition in which a person experiences enduring physical and psychological symptoms after an extremely stressful event
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general adaptation syndrome
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a three-stage process (alarm, resistance, exhaustion) by which the body responds to stress
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Type A behavior pattern
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a pattern of behavior characterized by extremes of competitive striving for achievement, a sense of time urgency, hostility, and aggression
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immune system
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a biological surveillance system that detects and destroys "nonself" substances that invade the body
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psychoneuroimmunology (PNI)
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a subfield of psychology that examines the links among psychological factors, the brain and nervous system, and the immune system
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learned helplessness
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a phenomenon in which experience with an uncontrollable event creates passive behavior toward a subsequent threat to well-being
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depressive explanatory style
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a habitual tendency to attribute negative events to cuases that are stable, global, and internal
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self-efficacy
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a person's beliefs that he or she is capable of the specific behavior required to produce a desired outcome in a given situation
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placebo effect
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the tendency for an ineffectual drug or treatment to improve a patient's condition because he or she believes in its effectiveness
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problem-focused coping
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cognitive and behavioral efforts to alter a stressful situation
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emotion-focused coping
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cognitive and behavioral efforts to reduce the distress produced by a stressful situation
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proactive coping
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up-front efforts to ward off or modify the onset of a stressful event
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social support
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the helpful coping resrouces provided by friends and other people
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subjective well-being
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one's happiness, or life satisfaction, as measured by self-report
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