Unit 1 Flashcards
What are the 3 things that affect our health?
1) environment
2) Heredity
3) Our choices
What are the 6 heath dimensions?
1) Spiritual
2) Emotional
3) Environmental
4) Physical
5) Mental
6) Social
What is optimum?
The very best it can be
What is detrimental?
Things that are harmful or negative
What are the 3 sides of the health triangle?
1) Physical
2) Mental
3) Social
What is dynamic?
Subject to constant change
What is the #1 thing that influences our health?
Our attitude
What are the 7 steps in decision making?
1) Define problem
2) List options
3) Consider your values
4) Weigh your possible outcomes
5) Make a decision
6) Feedback
7) Evaluate
What is inactive decision making?
When you fail to make choices and this failure determines what will happen
What is reactive decision making?
When you allow other to make decisions for you
What is proactive decision making?
To prepare and control a situation of occurrence
What is eustress?
A helpful response to a stressor
*good stress
What is distress?
A harmful response to a stressor
*bad stress
Type A characteristics?
1) Driven
2) Competitive
3) Impulsive
4) Impatient
5) Relentless
6) Distrustful
7) Achievement
8) Bossy
Type B characteristics?
1) Purposeful
2) Calm
3) Patient
4) Composed
5) Flexible
6) Cooperative
7) Relaxed
8) Trustful
Top 10 killers in the U.S.
1) Heart disease
2) Cancer
3) Lung disease
4) Stroke
5) Accidental
6) Alzheimers
7) Diabetes
8) Flu
9) Kidney
10) Suicide
Top 10 killer of teens
1) Unintentional injury
2) Homicide
3) Suicide
4) Cancer
5) Heart disease
6) Birth defects
7) Stroke
8) Lung disease
9) Diabetes
10) Blood poisoning
What is enhancement?
Something you do to make a positive change towards improvement.
What are risk behaviors?
Voluntary actions that threaten health, increase illness, and premature death, and destroy the quality of the environment.
What are health behaviors?
Action that promote health, prevent illness, injury and premature death and improve the quality of the environment.
What are life skills?
Healthful actions that are learned and practiced for a lifetime
What is self esteem?
The extend to which one FEELS worthy and useful
What is self image?
The conception that one has of ONESELF
