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