Health Choices and Behavior
Emotional Health
Your Changing Personality
Stress
Mental and Emotional Problems
100
freedom from physical disease, poor physical condition, social maladjustment, and other negative states.
What is health?
100
the state of being free of mental disturbances that limit functioning
What is emotional health?
100
the scientific study of behavior and the mind
What is psychology?
100
A physical or psychological demand that requires a person to adapt to a situation.
What is a stressor?
100
An emotional state of high energy that triggers the stress response.
What is anxiety?
200
maximum well-being, the top of the range of health states
What is wellness?
200
the outermost portion of the brain where mental processes take place
What is the cortex?
200
Psychologist who developed the theory of the eight stages of life.
Who is Erikson?
200
Raised body temperature, dryness of mouth, loss of appetite are a few examples of this.
What are physical signs of stress?
200
Refers to disorders of thought, emotion, or behavior that cause distress and reduce a person's ability to function.
What is mental illness?
300
Two factors besides people's own choices that can cause diseases.
What are heredity and environment?
300
the ability to recognize and appropriately express one's emotions in a way that enhances living
What is emotional intelligence?
300
Esteem, love, safety, physiological needs are examples.
What are needs?
300
Manages the body's activities by sending and receiving messages between the brain, spinal cord, and nerves.
What is the nervous system?
300
A mood disorder that involves extreme highs and lows of emotions.
What is bipolar disorder? (manic depressive)
400
This comes naturally from instincts or human drives.
What is motivation?
400
desiring a resolution, honoring a relationship, being flexible but firm, sincerely apologetic, showing courage, open-mindedness
What are strategies for resolving conflicts?
400
The male or female roles people play.
What are gender roles?
400
A chemical that serves as a messenger.
What is a hormone?
400
2 Eating Disorders
What are anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa?
500
A person's intent which leads to action.
What is a person's will?
500
Not expressing feelings appropriately.
What is passive behavior?
500
Fixed pictures of how everyone in a group is thought to be; ideas that do not recognize anyone's individuality
What are stereotypes?
500
These give the body the capacity for identifying, destroying, and disposing of disease-causing agents and creating immunity.
What are white blood cells?
500
Sudden, unexplained attacks of terror.
What is a panic attack or panic disorder?
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