HTH 100 Ch. 2

Question 1

Resiliency

Answer 1

The ability to adapt to change and stressful events in healthy and flexible events

Question 2

Psychological Health

Answer 2

The mental, emotional, social, and spiritual dimensions of health

Question 3

Mental Health

Answer 3

The thinking part of psychological health; includes your values, attitudes, and beliefs

Question 4

Emotional Health

Answer 4

The feeling part of psychological health; includes your emotional reactions to life

Question 5

Emotions

Answer 5

Intensified feelings or complex patterns of feelings

Question 6

Social Health

Answer 6

Aspect of psychological health that includes interactions with others, ability to use social supports, etc.

Question 7

Dysfunctional Families

Answer 7

Families in which there is violence; physical, emotional, or sexual abuse; significant parental discord; etc.

Question 8

Social Support

Answer 8

Network of people and services with whom you share ties and from whom you get support

Question 9

Spiritual Health

Answer 9

Aspect of psychological health that relates to having a sense of meaning and purpose to one’s life

Question 10

Self-Efficacy

Answer 10

Describes a person’s belief about whether he or she can successfully execute a specific behavior

Question 11

Self-Esteem

Answer 11

One’s realistic sense of self-respect or self-worth

Question 12

Learned Helplessness

Answer 12

Pattern of responding to situations by giving up because of repeated future in the past

Question 13

Learned Optimism

Answer 13

Teaching oneself to think positively

Question 14

Emotional Intelligence (EI)

Answer 14

The ability to manage emotions in positive ways; to communicate effectively with others and diffuse conflict

Question 15

Psychoneuroimmunology (PNI)

Answer 15

The study of the interactions of various bodily functions and the functioning of the body’s immune system

Question 16

Positive Psychology

Answer 16

The scientific study of human strengths and virtues

Question 17

Happiness

Answer 17

A collective term for several positive states in which individuals actively embrace the world around them

Question 18

Neurotransmitters

Answer 18

Chemicals that relay messages between nerve cells or from nerve cells to other body cells

Question 19

Mental Illnesses

Answer 19

Disorders that disrupt thinking, feeling, moods, and behaviors and that impair daily functioning

Question 20

Chronic Mood Disorder

Answer 20

Experience of persistent emotional states, such as sadness

Question 21

Major Depression

Answer 21

Severe depressive disorder with physical effects (sleep disturbance) and mental effects (inability to concentrate)

Question 22

Attention-Deficit (Hyperactivity) Disorder (ADD/ADHD)

Answer 22

A learning disability usually associated with school-aged children involving difficulty concentrating, organizing, etc.

Question 23

Dyslexia

Answer 23

Language-based learning disorder that can pose problems for reading, writing, and spelling

Question 24

Dyscalculia

Answer 24

A learning disability involving math

Question 25

Dysgraphia

Answer 25

A learning disability involving writing; individuals may have difficulty putting letters, numbers, and words in order