PSYC 101 1st Edition Lecture 14 Outline of Last Lecture - Stress Outline of Current Lecture - Health Related to StressCurrent Lecture- Health Related to Stress Health Related Consequences - Stress can have a variety of health related consequences - Leads to elevated blood pressure may result in coronary heart disease Type A Personality - Associated with coronary heart disease - Time urgency and impatience - Free floating hostility- Competitive - toxic componentType B Personality - Relaxed - Patient - Positive Expectancies Life Style Modification - Modifying a Type A lifestyle may reduce recurrences of heart attacks Pessimism and Heart Disease - Pessimistic adult men are twice as likely to develop heart diseases over a 10 year period A psychophysiological illness is any stress related physical illness such as hypertension and some headaches These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.Psychoneuroimmunology is a developing field in which the health effects of psychological neural and endocrine process on the immune systems are studiedPsychosomatic - physical effects of stress B lymphocytes - fight bacterial infections T lymphocytes attack cancer cells and viruses Microphage - ingest foreign substancesRetrospective studies - individuals with cancer report higher levels of stress the year before diagnosis Prospective breast cancer study - women reported their levels of stress before lump biopsy. Those women with the higher levels of stress were more likely to be diagnosed with
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