5.1a Vocab words

A subfield of psychology that explores the impact of psychological, behavioral, and cultural factors on health and wellness.

The study of how psychological, neural, and endocrine processes together affect our immune system and resulting health.

The process by which we perceive and respond to certain events, called stressors, that we appraise as threatening or challenging.

The drive to move toward (approach) or away from (avoid) a stimulus.

Selye’s concept of the body’s adaptive response to stress in three phases — alarm, resistance, exhaustion.

Under stress, people (especially women) may nurture themselves and others (tend) and bond with and seek support from others (befriend).

The clogging of the vessels that nourish the heart muscle; a leading cause of death in many developed countries.

Friedman and Rosenman’s term for competitive, hard-driving, impatient, verbally aggressive, and anger-prone people.

Friedman and Rosenman’s term for easygoing, relaxed people.

In psychology, the idea that “releasing” aggressive energy (through action or fantasy) relieves aggressive urges.