01:830:101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Stress (Biology), Behavioral Medicine, Rush Hour

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: 01:830:101
• Professor: Dr.John Ackroff

Document Summary

Stress and 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. Stressful life events: catastrophic events- earthquakes, combat stress, floods. Life changes- death of a loved one, divorce, loss of a job, promotion: daily hassles- rush hour traffic, long lines, job stress, burnout, perceived control- loss of control can increase stress hormones. What is stress? (part 2: burnout- physical, emotional and mental exhaustion brought on by persistent job-related stress, coronary hear disease- clogging of the vessels that nourish the heart muscle; leading cause of death in the us. Stress and coronary heart disease: type a- friedman and rosenman"s term for people who are competitive, hard-driving, impatient, verbally aggressive, anger-prone, type b- friedman and rosenman"s term for easygoing, relaxed people. Stress and disease: psychomatic disease- psychologically caused physical symptoms, psychophysiological illness.