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How is health psychology a union between medicine and psychology? |
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Investigates the psychological factors related to wellness and illness, including the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of medical problems |
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What is stress, how does it affect us, and how can we best cope with it? |
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People’s response to events that threaten or challenge them |
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The study of relationship between psychological factors the immune system and the brain. |
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Psychoneuroimmunology (PNI) |
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A natural disaster, a stressor that affect many people at once is called? |
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Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and major life events such as a family death, job loss or a positive such as marriage are consider? |
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Minor irritations of life that we face again and again, such standing in the line at the grocery store, or being stuck in traffic consider? |
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A stressful event that is long lasting, maybe re-experience in vivid flashback or in a dream is consider? |
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Posttramic stressa disorder |
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Once refered as(psychosomatic disorders) Actual medical problems that are influenced by an interaction of psychological, emotional, and physical difficulties |
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Psychophysiological Disorders |
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Hans Selye a physiological response to stress follows the same set pattern regardless of the cause of stress |
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(GAS) general adapation syndrom |
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people becoming aware of presnce stressor, biologically the nervous system energize to cope is what stage? |
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The way a person prepare to fight with a stressor. |
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Ability to adaptto stress diminishes, systoms appear. |
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Efforts to control, reduce, or learn to tolerate the threats that lead to stress |
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Managing emotions in the face of stress, seeking to change the way one feels about or perceives a problem |
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Attempting to modify the stressful problem or source of stress |
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Occurs when people conclude that unpleasant or aversive stimuli cannot be controlled |
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Cluster of behaviors involving hostility, competitiveness, time urgency, and feeling driven, men who display this type pattern devolpe cononary heart disease and suffer more fatal heart attacks. |
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