AP Psychology Unit 8B

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behavioral medicine

integrates behavioral and medical knowledge and applies that knowledge to health and disease the theory that an emotionarousing stimulus simultaneously triggers physiological responses and the subjective experience of emotion emotional release the clogging of the vessels that nourish the heart muscle a response of the whole organism involving physiological arousal, expressive behaviors, and conscious experience the effect of facial expressions of experienced emotions as when a facial expression of anger intensifies feelings of anger people's tendency to be helpful when already in a good mood a concept of the body's adaptive response to stress in three phases- alarm, resistance, exhaustion provides psychology's contribution to behavioral medicine the theory that our experience of emotion is our awareness of our physiological responses to emotion-arousing stimuli the two types of white blood cells that are part of the body's immune system a machine, commonly used in attempts to detect lies, that measures several of the physiological responses accompanying emotion the study of how psychological, neural, and endocrine processes together affect the immune system and resulting health

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psychophysiological illness relative deprivation

any stress-related physical illness the perception that we are worse off relative to those with whom we compare ourselves the process by which we perceive and respond to certain events, called stressors, that we appraise as threatening or challenging the theory that to experience emotion one must be physically aroused and cognitively label the arousal competitive, hard-driving, impatient, verbally aggressive, and anger-prone people easygoing, relaxed people self-perceived happiness or satisfaction with life

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Cannon-Bard theory

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stress

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catharsis coronary heart disease emotion

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two-factor theory

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Type A

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Type B well-being

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facial feedback

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feel-good, do-good phenomenon general adaptation syndrome

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health psychology

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James-Lange theory

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lymphocytes

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polygraph

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psychoneuroimmunology