Health 3RD NINE WEEKS EXAM Flashcards
The number of years a person can expect to live
Life expectancy
the overall well-being of your body, your mind, and your relationships with other people
Health
The degree of overall satisfaction that a person gets from life
Quality of life
How well your body functions : diet, regular exercise, adequate sleep, medical and dental care
Physical health
The state of being comfortable with yourself, with others, and with your surroundings : mind is alert, can learn from your mistakes, and recognize your achievements
Mental health
How you react to events in your life: happy when the feelings you experience are appropriate responses to events
Emotional health
How well you get along with others : how well you get along with people, loving relationships, understanding the rights if others, excepting health
Social health
All the traits that are passed biologically from parent to child
Hereditary
What are 2 examples of heredity
Skin color
Breast cancer
The physical and social conditions that surround a person and can influence that person’s health including your outdoor and indoor surroundings
Physical environment
What are two examples of a physical environment
Air we breathe
Water we drink
The people you spend time with - your family, friends, classmates, and other people in your community
Social environment
What are 2 examples of social environment
Teammates
Friends
The beliefs and patterns of behavior that are shared by a group of people and passes from generation from generation
Culture
What are 2 examples of culture
Stories passed down
Food
Forms of communication that provide news and entertainment
Media
What are two examples of media
Television
Magazines
Computers, machines, websites, and social media that can all have negative or positive effects on someone’s health
Technology
What are two examples of technology
MRI machines
The medical services provided by doctors, nurses, dentists, therapists, and the places they work : need health insurance so you can afford the necessary treatments
Healthcare
What are two examples of healthcare
Dental clean
Mammograms
The decisions you make and the actions you take : a habit is a behavior that is represented so often that it becomes almost automatic
Behavior
What are two examples or behavior
Biting your nails
Brushing your teeth
What are the 8 influences on health
Hereditary Physical environment Social environment Culture Media Technology Healthcare Behavior
Any action to condition that increases the likelihood of injury, disease, or other negative outcome
Risk factor
What are three ways you can evaluate a risk factor
Consider short and long term consequences
Analyze possible benefits and risks of the decision
Decide whether or not you can control it
What does the first D in DECIDE stand for
Define the problem
What does the first E in DECIDE stand for
Explore the alternatives
What does the C in DECIDE stand for
Consider the consequences
What does the I in DECIDE stand for
Identify your values
What does the second D in DECIDE stand for
Decide and act
What does the second E in DECIDE stand for
Evaluate the results
Taking action to avoid disease, injury, and other negative health outcomes
Prevention
The standards and beliefs that are most important to you
Values
A series of specific steps you can take to achieve the goal
Action plane
Using communication to influence and support others in making positive health decisions
Advocacy
The ability to gather, understand, and use health information to improve his or her health
Health literacy
What are 3 steps you can take to help meet your personal health goals
Gaining awareness
Gaining knowledge
Building skills
Being able to recognize a health problem
Step one to help meet your personal health goals
Gaining awareness
Learn about the problem and how it can be prevented or treated and possible risk factors
Step two to help meet your personal health goals
Gaining knowledge
Apply skills to knowledge then take action to create healthy habits
Step three to help meet your person health goals
Building skills
What are the 7 ways you can build health skills
Analyzing influences Accessing information Communicating Making decisions Setting goals Practicing healthful behaviors Advocacy
This is important because to promote health you need to recognize the influence culture, media, and friends have on your health habits
Analyzing influences
this is important because you need to know how to find and evaluate health information
Accessing information
This way to build health skills is important because it helps you maintain close relationships, resolve conflicts, and show charming and respect for others by expressing your feelings
Communicating
This way to build health skills is important because it teaches you to identify your alternatives, think about the possible outcomes of a decision, and consider your values
Making decisions
This way to build health skills is important because you need to maintain healthy life-long behaviors and reduce risky ones
Practicing healthful behaviors
This way to build health skills is important because the goals you set help you translate knowledge into behavior and action
Setting goals
This way to build health skills is important because it can help you influence others to make positive health decisions
Advocacy
The behaviors, attitudes, feelings, and ways of thinking that make you an individual
Personality
Person who studies how people think, feel, and behave
Psychologist
When children copy the behaviors of others
Modeling
Friends who are about the same age and share similar interests
Peer group
An individual’s sense of self
Identity
What are five central traits to describe how people behave, relate to others, and react to change?
Extroversion Agreeableness Conscientiousness Emotional stability Openness to experiences
How much you like being with other people
Outgoing
Talkative
Sociable
Extroversion
Your tendency to relate to other people in a friendly way
Cooperative
Good-natured
Forgiving
Agreeableness
How responsible and self-disciplined you are Dependable Male good decisions Organized Deliberate
Conscientiousness
Tendency to be relaxed, secure, and calm even during difficult situations
Focus on the positive side of things
Emotional stability
Tendency to be curious, imaginative, and creative
has a wide range of interests and may be less predictable
Openness to experiences
Personality traits are influenced by what 2 things
Heredity
Environment (family, friends, culture)
What are the 8 stages of personality development
Develop trust Learn to be independent Take initiative Develop skill Search for identity Establish intimacy Create and nurture Look back with acceptance
The needs for that person are cared for and met; if the needs are not met they will develop distrust
Develop trust
What age range is develop trust
Birth - 18months
Learning to do things on your own and gaining control; fall true can result in self doubt
Second stage of personality development
Learn to be independent
What age range is learn to be independent
18 months - 3 years
Start to plan your own activities and learning right and wrong; they may feel unworthy if they are harshly scolded
Third stage of personality development
Take initiative
What age range is take initiative
3-6years
Children learning skills they will need as adults; without these skills they will feel like a failure
Fourth step of personality development
Develop skills
What age range is develop skill
6-12 years
Questioning who you are and what you want to do with your life; leads teens to try good/bad new things
Search for identity
What age range is search for identity
12-20 years
Establishing close bonds with others; learn to make commitments to other people
Sixth step of personality development
Establish intimacy
What age range is establish intimacy
20-40 years
Staying productive and creative in all aspects of life; get satisfaction helping young people learn to grow
Seventh step of personality development
Create and nurture
What age range is create and nurture
40-65 years
Reflect on your life and the choices you’ve made; some will accept the choices while some will regret them
Eighth step of personality development
Look back with acceptance
What age range is look back with acceptance
65+ years
How much you respect yourself and like yourself
Self-esteem
The process by which people achieve their full potential
Self actualization
Moslow’s pyramid that explains that before people can achieve self actualization, their basic needs must be met
Hierarchy of needs
What are the basic needs
Physical needs
Safety
Belonging
Esteem
What are some of the benefits of having high self esteem
Accept yourself for who you are
Have realistic view of yourself
Maintain a positive attitude
Form close relationships
What are some of the risks of having low self esteem
Fears keep them from trying new things See success as luck and not work Don't respect themselves Judge themselves harshly Put on an act to impress others and hide their insecurities
What are 7 ways you can maintain and achieve high self esteem
Make a list of strengths and weaknesses Set ambitious, but realistic, goals for yourself Do not be too hard on yourself Rely on your values Learn to accept compliments Look beyond your own concerns Do not focus too much on appearance
Learn to focus on your strengths and things you do well
One way you can maintain and achieve high self esteem
Make a lost of your strengths and weaknesses
Develop a plan and achieve your goal then congratulate yourself
One way you can maintain and achieve high self esteem
Set ambitious, but realistic, goals for yourself
Figure out what went wrong and move on; try to learn something positive
One way you can maintain and achieve high self esteem
Do not be too hard on yourself
Don’t do things just to go along with the crowd
One way you can maintain and achieve high self esteem
Rely on your values
Still try to distinguish insincere ones from genuine ones
One way you can maintain and achieve high self esteem
Learn to accept compliments
Do something more for others
One way you can maintain and achieve high self esteem
Look beyond your own concerns
Stay well-groomed but don’t make it your number one priority
One way you can maintain and achieve high self esteem
Do not focus too much on appearance
What are on the levels of Moslow’s Hierarchy of Needs pyramid going from top to bottom
Self actualization Esteem Belonging Safety Physical needs
What are 8 personality traits of self-actualized people
Realistic and accepting Independnt, self-sufficient Appreciative of life Concerned about humankind Capable of loving others Fair, unprejudiced Creative and hard-working Not afraid to be different
A reaction to a situation that involves your mind, body, and behavior
Emotion
Expressed by people in all cultures
Primary emotions
Period of deep sorrow
Grief
Depends on the social environment in which a person grows up
Learned emotions
Way of dealing with an uncomfortable and unbearable feeling or situation
Coping strategy
Coping strategies that helps protect a person from difficult feelings
Defense mechanisms
What is the first most importsnt, first step to dealing with your emotions in a healthful way
Recognize your emotions
How are some coping strategies helpful
They can improve a situation and allow the person to handle it well
How are some coping strategies harmful
They make the situation worse and a person can’t handle the situation
What are some examples of defense mechanisms
Denial Compensation Rationalization Reaction formation Projection Regression
Refusing to recognize an emotion or problem
An example of a defense mechanism
Denial
Making up for weaknesses in one area by excelling in another area
An example of a defense mechanism
Compensation
Making excuses for actions or feelings
An example of a defense mechanism
Rationalism
Behaving in a way opposite to the way you feel
An example of a defense mechanism
Reaction formation
Putting your own faults onto another person
An example of a defense mechanism
Projection
Returning to immature behaviors to express emotions
An example of a defense mechanism
Regression
An illness that affects the mind and reduces a person’s ability to function, to adjust to change, or to get along with others
Mental disorder
Fear caused by a source you cannot identify to a source that doesn’t pose as much a threat as you think
Anxiety
When the anxiety persists for a long time and interferes with daily living
Anxiety disorder
Anxiety that is related to a specific situation or object
Phobia
Am unwanted thought or image that takes control of the mind
Obsession
An unreasonable need to behave on a certain way to prevent a feared outcome
Compulsion
Extreme emotions that make it difficult to function well in their daily lives
Mood disorder
Emotional state in which a person feels extremely sad and hopeless
Depression
Several disturbances in thinking, mood, awareness, and behavior; means “split mind”; the person is separated/split from reality
Schizophrenia
Rigid pattern of behavior that makes it difficult for them to get along with others
Personality disorder
What are the 4 causes of mental disorders
Physical factors
Heredity
Early experiences
Recent experiences
Damage to the brain may be caused by a mental disorder
One of the causes of mental disorders
Physical factors
May inherit a tendency toward a mental disorder
One of the causes of mental disorders
Heredity
Extremely negative experiences that happen early in life and can lead to mental illness
One of the causes of mental disorders
Early experiences
Similar to early experiences but more likely than early experiences to trigger a mental disorder
One of the causes of mental disorders
Recent experiences
What are the 4 types of anxiety disorders
Phobias
Panic attacks
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Anxiety that is related to a specific situation or object
One type of anxiety disorder
Phobias
An intense fear accompanied by a string desire
One type of anxiety disorder
Panic attacks
An unwanted take over of the mind and an unreasonable need to behave a certain way
One type of anxiety disorder
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Flashbacks or nightmares that produce intense fear or horror
One type of anxiety disorder
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
What are the 4 types of mental disorders
Mood disorders
Schizophrenia
Impulse-control disorder
Personality disorders
Experience extreme emotions that make it difficult to function well in their daily lives
A type of mental disorder
Mood disorder
Severe disturbances in thinking, mood, awareness, and behavior
Their mind is split/separated from reality
A type of mental disorder
Schizophrenia
Cannot resist the impulse, or drive, to act in a way that is harmful to themselves or to others
A type of mental disorder
Impulse-control disorder
Display rigid patterns of behavior that make it difficult for them to get along with others
A type of mental disorder
Personality disorder
A mental disorder that reveals itself through abnormal behaviors to food
Eating disorder
A person who doesnt eat enough food to maintain a healthy body weight
Anorexia nervosa
What are the symptoms of anorexia
Extreme weight loss Slowed heart and breathing rates Dry skin Lowered body temperature Growth of fine body hair
Does anorexia cause people to over eat or under eat
Under eat
What are some health risks of anorexia
View themselves as fat and work hard to lose weight
Use exercise or diet pills to help lose weight
Starve to death
Lack of minerals makes their heart still suddenly
What are the possible causes of anorexia
Low self esteem
Strong desire to please others
Lack of a chemical that regulates mood
A history of troubled relationships
Do people with anorexia have control over this eating disorder
No
What are some signs of bulimia
Unable to control binge eating Eating too much too quickly Eating in private Cycles of weight gain and loss Bathroom visits right after eating Hoarding or storing
What may the people who have bulimia suffer from
Dehydration
Kidney damage
Lack of necessary vitamins and minerals
What do people who have bulimia do
Go on uncontrollable eating binges followed by purging the food from their biodiesel
What does purging mean
Removing
What do people who have bulimia use binge eating for
To feel better emotionally
How do people with bulimia act
Depressed
Suicidal
Uncontrollable urge to ear large amounts of food without purging
Binge eating
True or False
people with binge eating disorder know when to stop eating when they are full
False
True or False
Diets make people with this disorder want to eat more; therefore, triggering more of the disorder
True
True or False
Eating with this disorder leads to emotions that help them feel better about themselves
False
What are the 2 main physical risks of binge eating
Excessive weight gain
Unhealthy dieting
Name 3 reasons people use binge eating
Difficult emotions
Dealing with anger
Anxiety/stressful situations