Vocabulary
Disorders & Illnesses
Strategies to Improve Mental Health
The Brain & Its Functions
100

Taking action to influence others to address a health-related concern or to support a health-related belief.

What is advocacy?

100

The fear of environments that could be considered unsafe or could lead to a loss of control

What is agoraphobia?

100

Behaviors that focus on one speaker and show understanding and attentiveness

what is active listening?

100

A region of the cerebral cortex whose functions include processing information about touch.

What is the parietal lobe?
200

failure to take proper care in doing something.

What is negligence?

200

A disorder in which a person obsesses about their weight to the point that they restrict their diet.

What is anorexia nervosa?

200

The tendency for people to have an attachment to those who they believe have a similar attachment

What is reciprocal liking?

200

located at the rear of the brainstem; processes sensory input and coordinates movement

What is the cerebellum?

300

medicines that quickly fight inflammation in your body.

What are steriods?

300

A dependence on a medication or addictive substance, despite the harm it causes

What is substance abuse?

300

A form of coping that aim to change or disbelieve the essence of an event

What is defensive coping?
300

The part of the temporal lobe that comprehends speech; the brain's "language comprehension centre"

What is Wernicke's area?

400

a theory that stresses the evolutionary basis of many aspects of parental behavior, including the extensive investment parents make in their offspring.

What is parental investment theory?

400

Any disorder in which a person loses contact with reality; people may see, hear, or believe that items are real when they are not.

What is psychosis?

400
A coping strategy that reframes thinking and focuses on the positives

What is appraised-focused coping?

400

The brain and spinal cord; the body's major processing system.

What is the central nervous system?

600

pioneer in operant conditioning; behavior is based on an organism's reinforcement history; worked with pigeons.

Who is B. F. Skinner?

600

A disorder in which a patient experiences extreme outbursts multiple times a week in various different settings

What is disruptive mood dysregulation disorder?

600

Shapes understanding and thoughts on mental and social health

What is the role of media?

600

a loss in brain function where the output of speech shows a decline and there is a loss of grammatical structure.

What is broca's aphasia?