PSYCH 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Galantamine, Tacrine, Amyloid Precursor Protein
15 Feb 2017
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Type a behavior: competitiveness, impatience, and a tendency toward frustration and hostility, evidence is correlational, so cannot conclude that type a behavior causes heart disease. Competitiveness, impatience, and a tendency toward frustration and hostility, are more susceptible to heart disease. Engagement in polyphasic activities - multiple activities carried out simultaneously. They are easily angered and become verbally and nonverbally hostile if prevented from reaching their goals. Heart rate and blood pressure rise, epinephrine and norepinephrine increase. Evidence is only correlational so we cannot say type a behavior causes heart disease. Most experts now say it is the negative emotion and hostility that are the major links to heart disease. Most research has been done on men; we need to research women to see if type a women are equally susceptible. Type b behavior: non-competitiveness, patience, and a lack of aggression, evidence that type b people have less than half the risk of coronary disease than type a people have.
