AP Psychology
Type A
Friedman and Rosenman's term for competitive, hard-driving, impatient, verbally aggressive, and anger-prone people
Type B
Friedman and Rosenman's term for easygoing, relaxed people
lymphocytes
The two types of white blood cells that are part of the body's immune system
psychophysical illness
Any stress-related physical illness
Hans Selye
came up with general adaptation syndrome
Cortisol
stress hormone secreted from outer part of adrenal glands
behavioral medicine
An interdiciplinary field that integrates behavioral and medical knowledge and applies that knowledge to health and disease
general adaptation syndrome
Salye's concept of the body's adaptive responses to stress in three stages - alarm, resistance, exhaustion
coronary heart disease
The clogging of the vessels that nourish the heart muscle; the leading cause of death in many developed countries
health psychology
A subfield of psychology that provides psychology's contribution to behavioral medicine
biofeedback
A system for electronically recording, amplifying, and feeding back information regarding a subtle physiological state
stress
The processes by which we perceive and respond to certain events, called stressors, that we appraise as threatening or challenging
Fight or Flight
preparation of body's adaptive response; adrenaline