Taking Charge of Personal Wellness

Flashcards about taking charge of personal wellness, covering nutrition, exercise, sleep, and social media use.

Wellness

Defined in terms of nutrition, exercise, sleep, and social media use.

Wellness and Stress Management

Maintaining personal wellness is a prerequisite for optimal learning outcomes.

Information Processing

Effective memory retrieval strategies are contingent upon daily wellness choices related to nutrition, exercise, sleep hygiene, and stress management because learning is an integrative neurobiological process.

Wellness Routines

Sleep, nutrition, and physical activity enhance daily functioning.

Sleep Deprivation

Impacts the cortex's overall functioning and the temporal lobe's ability to consolidate and encode into long-term memory.

Sleep Hygiene

Establishing wellness routines that take sleep hygiene, nutritional intake, and physical activity into consideration.

Mindfulness

The practice of self-awareness through noticing one's thoughts, emotions, actions, and experiences in the present moment.

Stress Reactions

Occur when the perceived demands of a situation exceed personal resources.

Cortisol

Hormone released by stress, which exerts an influence on three key areas of executive functioning: working memory, inhibition, and cognitive flexibility.

Critical Thinking

Self-guided, self-disciplined thinking which attempts to reason at the highest quality in a fair-minded way.

Social Media

Can contribute, or detract from the social dimension as well as impacting many of the other areas of wellness.

PSMU

Problematic Social Media Use; a maladaptive pattern that denotes excessive concern with, and use of, social media to the exclusion of other activities.