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| an interdisiplinary field that integrates behavioral and medical knowledge and applies that knowledge to health and disease |
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| a subfield of psychology that provides psychology's contirbution to behavioral medicine |
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| the process by which we precieve and respond to certain events |
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| General Adaptaion Syndrome |
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| Selye's concept of the body's adaptive response to stress in three stages. -alarm, resistance, and exhaustion |
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| the clogging of the vessels that nourish the heart muscle |
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| Friedman's and Rosenman's term for competitve, hard-driving, impatient, verbally-agressive, anger-prone, people |
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| Psychophysiological illness |
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| literally "mind-body" illness |
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| the two types of white blood cells that are apart of the body's immune system |
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| sustained excersice that increases heart and lung fitness |
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| a system for electronically recording, amplifying, and feeding back information regaurding subtle physiological state |
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| Complementary and Alternative Medicine |
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| unproven health care treatments not taught widely in medical school |
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