PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Coronary Artery Disease, Emotional Contagion, Endocrine System
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Body mass index (bmi): a staisic commonly used for esimaing a healthy body weight given an individual s height. Set point: a hypothesized mechanism that serves to maintain body weight around a physiologically programmed level. Social contagion: the oten subtle, unintenional spreading of a behaviour as a result of social interacions. Coronary heart disease: a condiion in which plaques form in the blood vessels that supply the heart with blood and oxygen, resuling in restricted blood low. Corisol: a hormone secreted by the adrenal cortex (the outer part of the adrenal gland) that prepares the body to respond to stressful circumstances. Fight-or-light response: a set of physiological changes that occur in response to psychological or physical threats. General adaptaion syndrome (gas): a theory of stress responses involving stages of alarm, resistance, and exhausion. Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (hpa) axis: a neural and endocrine circuit that provides communicaion between the nervous system (the hypothalamus) and the endocrine system (pituitary and adrenal glands)
