Myers 6th ed - ch 17 Word Scramble
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| Behavioral Medicine | An interdisciplinary field that Integrates behavioral and medical knowledge and applies that knowledge to health and disease |
| Health Psychology | A subfield of psychology that provides psychology's contribution to behavioral medicine |
| Stress | The process by which we perceptive and respond to certain events, called stressors, that we appraise as threatening or challenging. |
| General Adaptation Syndrome(GAS) | Selye's concept of the body's adaptive response to stress in three stages - alarm, resistance, exhaustion |
| Burnout | Physical, emotional, and mental exhaustion brought on by persistent job-related stress. |
| Coronary Heart Disease | The clogging of the vessels that nourish the heart muscle; the leading cause of death in United States |
| Type A | Friedman and Rosenman's term for competitive, hard driving, impatient, verbally aggressive, and anger-prone people |
| Type B | Friedman and Roseman's term of easygoing, relaxed people |
| Psychophysiological illness | Literally, "mind-body" illness; any stress-related physical illness, such as hypertension and some headaches |
| Lymphocytes | The two types of white blood cells that are part of the body's immune system: B lymphocytes form in the bone marrow and release antibodies that fight bacteria infections; T lymphocytes form in thymus and attack cancer cells, viruses and foreign substances |
| Aerobic Exercise | Sustained exercise that increases heart and lung fitness |
| Biofeedback | A system electronically recording, amplifying, and feeding back information regarding a subtle psychological state, such as blood pressure or muscle tension |
| Complementary and alternative medicine | Unproven health care treatments not taught widely in medical schools, not used in hospitals, and not usually reimbursed by insurance companies |
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