TERM 1
Robert Ader
DEFINITION 1
-Psychoimmunology-psychological process, nervous system,
immune system-worked with rats to classically condition
their immune system by putting immune suppressers into
flavored water, eventually after taking the suppressor away
the flavored water still suppressed the immune system
TERM 2
Walter B. Cannon
DEFINITION 2
-stress and the flight-or-flight response-found that this
response was influenced by the nervous and endocrine
system
TERM 3
Janice Kiecolt-Glaser
DEFINITION 3
-stressors that can influence the immune system-studied
stress in college students-found that stress does indeed
affect the immune system
TERM 4
Richard Lazarus
DEFINITION 4
-weather we experience stress depends largely on our
cognitive appraisal of an event and the resources we have to
deal with the event
TERM 5
Martin Seligman
DEFINITION 5
-how people characteristically explain their failures and
defeats makes the difference-optimism vs pessimism
