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beahvioral medicine
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interdisciplinary field that integrates behavioral and medical knowledge and applies that knowledge to health and disease
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health psychology
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provides psychology's contribution to behavioral medicine
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stressor
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events that cause stress
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stress reaction
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physical and emotional responses to stress
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stress
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process by which we peceive and respond to certain events, called stressors, that we apprainse as thretening or challengin
-causes circulatory disease, respiratiory, infections disease, and chronic disease |
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general adaptation sundroms
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body's adaptive response to stess in 3 stages- alarm, resistance, exhaustion
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alarm stage
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due to sudden activation of sympatheic nerous system
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resistance
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fight the challenge- sudden outpouring of hormones
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exhausion
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most vulnerable to iillness
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telomers
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shorter DNS pieces at the end of chromosomes- get too short and can't divide, so dies
- cauese women to age younger |
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catastrophes
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unpredicable large-scale events appraised as threatening
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significant lfe changes
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leaving home, death of loved one
-most vulnerable to disease |
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daily hassles
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hypertension amond those who live in urban ghettos
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coronary heart disease
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clogging of vessels that nourish the heart muscle; the leading couse of death in many developed countries
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type A
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competitive hear driving, impatient, verbally aggressive, and anger prone people
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type B
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easygoing, relazed people
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psychophysiological illness
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mind boy illnes; any stress-related phyical illness, such as hypertension and some headaches
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lymphocytes
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2 types of hwite blood cells that are part of the body's immune system: B lymphocytes form in the bone marrow and release antibodies that fight bacterial infections; T lymphocytes form in the thymus and lymphatic tissue and attact cancer cells, viruses, foreign substances
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biofeedback
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system for electronically recording, amplifying, and feeding back information regardin a subtly physiological state, such as blood pressure or muscle tension
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