Health Unit 2 Flashcards

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What two major things influence personality traits? Explain their influence

  • Genes: Parents may pass down certain personality traits

  • Environment: What you’re surrounded by can affect your personality

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What does Ocean Stand for?

  • Openness: Level of creativeness and responsiveness to change

  • Conscietiousness: Level of organization and attention to detail

  • Extroversion: Level of socialness and emotional exspressiveness

  • Agreableness: Level with interest of others and coperativeness

  • Natural Reactions: Level of emotional stability and moodiness, especially in difficult situations

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Define Self-esteem

How you see yourself and your opinion of yourself

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What are examples of someone with high and low self-esteem?

High self-esteem: Accepting yourself, realistic expectations, positive attitude

Low self-esteem: You criticize yourself, you go above and beyond to please people, you focus more on your weaknesses

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Define defense mechanism

Unconscious psychological responses that protect people from feelings of anxiety, threats to self-esteem, and things that they don’t want to think about or deal with.

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Define Primary emotions

Emotions expresed by people in all culture

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Define Learned emotions

Emotions that you get based on the social environment you grow up in

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What are the primary emotions? Why do we identify them as such?

Hapiness, Sadness, Anger, and fear. We I dentity them as such because they are the primary foundation to other emotions.

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What are learned emotions? What is different about them?

Learned emotions are like love, guilt, and shame that you feel from others. They differ depending on your social environment.

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Define these 6 defense mechanisms…

Projection

Reaction formation

Rationalization

Regression

Denial

Compensation

Projection: Assigning your own unacceptable feelings or qualities to others 

Reaction formation: Behaving in a way opposite to the way you feel

Rationalization: Justifying an unacceptable feeling or behavior with logic

Regression: Returning to immature behaviors to express emotions

Denial: Denying that something exists

Compensation: Making up for weaknesses in one area by excelling in another

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Define Stress

  • A physical and emotional response to a perceived threat or challenge

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What are the stages of stress? Be able to describe them.

  1. Alarm Stage - Adrenaline released into the blood causes immediate changes in the body.

 2. Resistance Stage - Your body adapts to the continued presence of the stressor

3. Exhaustion Stage - Physical and emotional resources are depleted

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Classify the signs of stress in these categories… Body, Mood, and Behaviour

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How can stres contribute to ilness?

  • Stress can trigger certain ilnesses like stomach aches, asthma, and headaches

  • Stress can reduce the ability to fight an ilness like cold and flus

  • Stress can make some diseases harder to control like cancer

  • Prolonges stress can lead to heart disease

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Define optimism

The tendency to focus on the positives of the situation.

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Define Pessimism

The tendency to focus on the negative and expect the worst

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Define Perfectionist

A percon who accpets nothing less than excellence

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Define resilience

The ability to recover or “bounce back" from extreme or prolonged stress

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Define procrastination

The habit of delaying or avoiding tasks that need to be done

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What is the key factor in how you react to a stressor? What else influences your response to stress?

The key factor in how you react to a stressor is how you assess the situation. Your personality can influence your assessment on the situation.

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What are some ways a person can build resilience?

Ways to improve your resilience is relationships, know yourself, and bild goals.

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What are some healthy ways to manage stress?

Take control of stress, reduce tension, change your thinking.

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Define Stigma

Attaching negative qualities to mental disorders

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Define Mental distress

The brain’s expected and usual response to everyday life

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Define mental disorder

The brain is not functioning as it is supposed to function, leading to significant and persistent problems in a person’s everyday life

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Define clinical depression

mood disorder that affects how a person feels, thinks, and handles daily activities

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Define Anxiety

Physiological and psychological response that occurs when the mind and body encounter stressful, dangerous, or unfamiliar situations.

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Define Grief

a natural emotional response to loss – can affect people mentally, emotionally, and physically.

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Describe the three mental health states

Mental Distress: The brain’s expected and usual response to everyday life

Mental Health Problem: The brain’s response to a severe or persistent life problem

Mental Disorder: The brain is not functioning as it is supposed to function, leading to significant and persistent problems in a person’s everyday life

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Be able to list ways you can help a friend who is thinking about suicide?

Listen to them, Be there for them, Help with what they need.

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What are the three major causes of mental disorders? Be able to five an example of each.

Biological: Genetic influences from your brain like from your parent.

Physcological: These refer to how a person’s thoughts, emotions, and behaviors, including their coping mechanisms, can affect mental health.

Environmental: These include external conditions such as life experiences, socioeconomic status, family dynamics, and exposure to stressors like abuse, poverty, or neglect.

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List signs of someone dealing with clinical depression.

◦Feeling sad and hopeless

◦Unable to enjoy activities that were once a source of pleasure

◦May be unable to accomplish daily tasks