PSY 1102 Final: PSY1102 FINAL EXAM.docx

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1102
• Professor: all

Document Summary

Behavioural medicine: an interdisciplinary field that integrates behavioral and medical knowledge and applies that knowledge to health and diseases. Health psychology: a subfield of psychology that provides psychology"s contribution to behavioral medicine. Stress (walter cannon): the process by which we perceive and respond to certain events, called stressors, that we appraise as threatening or challenging. General adaptation syndrome (gas): selye"s concept of the body"s adaptive response to stress in three phases alarm (mobilize resources), resistance (cope with stressor), exhaustion (reserves depleted). Coronary heart disease: the clogging of the vessels that nourish the heart and muscle; the 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. Chronic stressors excessive inflammation depressive symptoms, cardiac disease. Psychophysiological illness: literally, mind-body illness, any stress-related physical illness, such as hypertension and some headaches.