Chapter 14: Stress And Health

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behavioral medicine

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interdisciplinary field that integrates behavioral and medical knowledge and applies that know-how to health and disease

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heath psychology

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subfield of psychology that provides psych's contribution to behavioral medicine

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stressor

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something that stresses you out

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stress reaction

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phys/emotional responses to stressors

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stress

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process by which people percieve and respond to certain events called stressors that we appraise as threatening or challengging

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good stress

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short lived or percieved as a challenge. momentary stress can mobileze the immune system

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bad stress

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may increase attainability of diesease

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Walter Cannon

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stress response is part of a unified mind body siystem; extreme cold, no o2 and emotion arousing incidents trigger out pouring of the stress hormones epinephrine and norepinephrine from the adrenal glands

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glucocorticoid

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secreated by the adrenal glands in response to stress

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cortisol

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stress hormone

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general adaptation Syndrome (GAS)

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selye's concept of the body's response to stress in 3 stages (alarm, resistance and exhaustion)

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Selye

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put cancer in rats and saw that their adrenal cortezes enlarged and their thymine glands shrunk and had ulcers. thought he created a new hormone when infact he just witnessed a stress rxn

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3 types of stressors

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catastrophes, siggnificant life changes and daily hassles

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coronary heart disease

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the cloggging of the vessels that bouris the heart muscle; the leading cause of death in mainly developed co.'s

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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 rosenberg's term for easy going, relaxed people

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psychopsysiological illness

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mind-body illness; any stress releated phys illness, such as hyper tension and some headaches: note~ this is distinct from hypochondriasis- misinterpreting normal physical sensations as symptoms of a disease

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lymphocytes

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the 2 types of white blood cells in a body's immune system: B lymphocytes for the bone marrow and release antibodies that fight bacterial infections, T lymphocytes form in the thymus and other lymphatic tissue and attack cancer cells, viruses and foreign substances

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coping

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alleviating stress using emotional, cognative or behavioral methods

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problem focused coping

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attempting to alleviat stress directly by changing the stressor or the way we interact with that stressor

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emotion focused coping

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attempting to alleviate stress by avooiding or ignoring a stressor and attending to emotional needs related to one's stress rxn

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aerobic exercise

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sustained exercise that increases heart and lung fitness; may also alleviate depression and anxiety

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biofeedback

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a system for electronically recording, amplifying and feeding back infor regarding a subtle physiological state, such as blood pressure or muscle tension

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complimentary and alternative medicine

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unproven health care treatments not taught widely in medical schools, not used in hospitals and not usually reimbursed by insurance co's