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Chapter 14 Lecture Notes: Stress Health Behavioral Medicine: interdisciplinary field that integrates behavioral and medical knowledge and applies that knowledge to health and disease Health Psychology: subfield of psychology that provides psychology’s contribution to behavioral medicine Stress: process by which we perceive and respond to certain events, called stressors, that we appraise as threatening or challenging Stress Appraisal: Burnout: physical, emotional and mental exhaustion brought on by persistent job-related stress General Adaptation Syndrome: Selye’s concept of the body’s adaptive response to stress in three stages Stressful Life Events: Catastrophic Events: earthquakes, combat stress, floods Life Changes: death of a loved one, divorce, loss of job, promotion Daily Hassles: rush hour traffic, long lines, job stress, burnout Stress and the Heart Coronary Heart Disease clogging of the vessels that nourish the heart muscle leading cause of death in many developed countries 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 Stress and Disease Psychosomatic Disease psychologically caused physical symptoms Psychophysiological Illness “mind-body” illness any stress-related physical illness some forms of hypertension some headaches distinct from hypochondriasis-- misinterpreting normal physical sensations as symptoms of a disease Lymphocytes 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 bacterial infections T lymphocytes form in the thymus and, among other duties, attack cancer cells, viruses, and foreign substances Negative emotions and health-related consequences: Promoting Health Aerobic Exercise: sustained exercise that increases heart and lung fitness Biofeedback: system for electronically recording, am