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- 4. under stress, people (especially women) often provide support to others (tend) and bond with and seek support from others (befriend)
- 5. the clogging of the vessels that nourish the heart muscle; the leading cause of death in many developed countries
- 6. nervous system that serves to slow the heart rate, increase intestinal and glandular activity, and relax the sphincter muscles
- 8. the theory that our experience of emotion is our awareness of our physiological responses to emotion-arousing stimuli
- 12. literally, "mind-body" illness; any stress-related physical illness, such as hypertension and some headaches
- 15. Friedman and Rosenman's term for easygoing, relaxed people
- 17. theory that some emotional responses occur instantly without and conscious thinking
- 19. most significant source of stress for most people
- 20. a subfield of psychology that provides psychology's contribution to behavioral medicine
- 21. a response of the whole organism, involving (1) physiological arousal, (2) expressive behaviors, and (3) conscious experience
- 24. the tendency of facial muscle states to trigger corresponding feelings such as fear, anger, or happiness
- 25. the process by which we perceive and respond to certain events, called stressors, that we appraise as threatening or challenging
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- 1. nervous system that serves to accelerate the heart rate, constrict blood vessels, and raise blood pressure
- 2. Friedman and Rosenman's term for competitive, hard-driving, impatient, verbally aggressive, and anger-prone people
- 3. Selye's concept of the body's adaptive response to stress in three phases- alarm, resistance, exhaustion
- 7. pursue diseased cells (such as those infected by viruses or cancer)
- 9. a condition that causes a breakdown of the human immune system leaving the victim vulnerable to other diseases and conditions
- 10. a machine that measures levels of physiological responses, such as heart rate, to certain emotions
- 11. form in the bone marrow and release antibodies that fight bacterial infections
- 13. form in the thymus and other lymphatic tissue and attack cancer cells, viruses, and foreign substances
- 14. the two types of white blood cells that are part of the body's immune system
- 16. our response to one event spills over and influences our response to another
- 18. the Schachter Singer theory that to experience emotion one must (1) be physically aroused and (2) cognitively label the arousal
- 22. Venting anger through emotional release
- 23. the theory that an emotion-arousing stimulus simultaneously triggers (1) physiological responses and (2) the subjective experience of emotion