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A subfield of psychology that provides psychology's contribution to behavioral medicine.
What is health psychology?
The process by which we perceive and respond to certain events, called stressors, that we appraise as threatening or challenging.
What is stress?
A pattern of physiological changes elicited by activity of the sympathetic nervous system in response to threatening or otherwise stressful situations that leads to mobilization of energy for physical activity.
What is fight-flight freeze?
Attempting to alleviate stress directly—by changing the stressor or the way we interact with that stressor.
What is problem-focused coping?
The study of how psychological, neural, and endocrine processes together affect the immune system and resulting health.
What is psychoneuroimmunology?
Any event, force, or condition that results in physical or emotional stress. May be internal or external forces that require adjustment or coping strategies on the part of the affected individual.
What is stressors?
First stage of general adaptation syndrome during which stress triggers a defensive or fight-flight response.
What is alarm reaction phase?
Attempting to alleviate stress by avoiding or ignoring a stressor and attending to emotional needs related to our stress reaction.
What is emotion-focused coping?
The response of the immune system to invasion of the body by foreign substances, which involves the release B and T lymphocytes, macrophage cells, or natural killer (NK) cells.
What is immune response?
The negative stress response, often involving negative affect and physiological reactivity: a type of stress that results from being overwhelmed by demands, losses, or perceived threats.
What is distress?
Second stage of general adaptation syndrome during which a person is in a level of stress they can handle and manage.
What is resistance phase?
Under stress, people (especially women) often provide support to others (tend) and bond with and seek support from others, which is to befriend.
What is tend-and-befriend response?
The clogging of the vessels that nourish the heart muscle; the leading cause of death in many developed countries.
What is coronary heart disease?
A positive form of stress having a beneficial effect on health, motivation, performance, and emotional well-being.
What is eustress?
Third stage of general adaptation syndrome during which a person can no longer handle stress and has to stop or their body will collapse.
What is exhaustion phase?
Potentially traumatic events that occur in childhood (0-17 years), such as experiencing violence, abuse, or neglect, witnessing violence in the home or community
What is adverse childhood experiences (ACEs)?
High blood pressure: a circulatory disorder characterized by persistent arterial blood pressure that exceeds a standard.
What is hypertension?
In psychology, the idea that "releasing" aggressive energy (through action or fantasy) relieves aggressive urges.
What is catharsis?
Selye's concept of the body's adaptive response to stress in three phases—alarm, resistance, exhaustion.
What is general adaptation syndrome (GAS)?
Friedman and Rosenman's terms for competitive, hard-driving, impatient, verbally aggressive, and anger-prone people.
There is also a term for easygoing, relaxed people.
What is Type A?
What is Type B?