Personal Health, Relationships, and Road Safety Practice Flashcards

Vocabulary practice flashcards generated from lecture notes covering relationships, sexual health, road safety regulations, and youth harm reduction strategies.

Image-Based Abuse

When someone shares an intimate image or video of a person without their consent, as revenge or to hurt a person they were in a relationship with.

Sextortion

A form of image-based abuse and blackmail where a person threatens to share a nude or sexual image or video of you unless you give in to their demands for money or rewards.

Age of Consent

The legal age of consent is $16$. Sexting is a crime if it involves people under $18$ even with consent.

1800RESPECT

A support service mentioned in the notes that is available $24/7$.

Freely Given Consent

Agreement that must be voluntary, without pressure, manipulation, or fear.

Reversible Consent

The principle that anyone can change their mind or stop at any time, even if the activity has already started.

Informed Consent

Requirement where all involved must know the full story and understand what they are agreeing to.

Enthusiastic Consent

An active, confident 'yes' based on desire, required for every step of an activity.

Specific Consent

Agreeing to one activity does not mean agreeing to a different or more advanced action.

17-25 Age Bracket Fatalities

The youngest driver and rider age group, which accounts for the highest road death rate at $23.2\text{\%}$.

Towards Zero Death

A road safety initiative focusing on safe speeds, safe people, safe roads, and safe vehicles.

P1 Licence Requirements

Requires being at least $17$ years of age, holding a learner licence for at least $12\text{ months}$ (unless $25$ or older), passing the DKT test, and logging at least $120\text{ hr}$ in an L driver book including at least $20\text{ hr}$ at night.

Learner and P1 Speed Limit

Maximum speed restriction prohibiting Learner and P1 drivers from going faster than $90\text{ km/h}$.

P2 Speed Limit

Maximum speed restriction prohibiting P2 drivers from going faster than $100\text{ km/h}$.

Excessive Speed Suspension

Learner or P1 drivers caught going $30\text{ km/h}$ or more over the speed limit receive an immediate suspension.

Power to Tare Mass Ratio Restriction

A rule banning P1 and P2 licence holders from driving cars with power to tare mass ratios greater than $130\text{ kW}$ per tonne.

P1 Passenger Restriction

P1 drivers under $25$ are not permitted to drive with more than one passenger under $21$ between $11\text{pm}$ and $5\text{am}$.

P1 Towing Limit

P1 drivers can tow a mass of not more than $250\text{ kg}$.

2020 Road Death Statistics

There were $284$ road death fatalities in the year $2020$, driven by $5$ main reasons: distracted driving, speeding, driving under the influence, driver fatigue, and not wearing a seatbelt.

Emergency Vehicle and Construction Speed Rule

Drivers must slow down to $40\text{ km/h}$ when passing an emergency vehicle or construction.

Neurological Impacts of Binge Drinking

Exposing an adolescent brain to high doses of alcohol alters neurochemical pathways, causing long-term cognitive issues such as reduced memory capacity and diminished attention spans.

5 ADF Strategies

Five strategies to support young people: Maintain open & honest communication, Encourage supervised leisure activities, Foster a sense of belonging, Provide positive adult role models, and Build social & emotional competence.

Pill Testing

A free, confidential harm reduction service that analyses the chemical makeup of illicit drugs to intercept lethal toxins and save lives.

5 Strategies to Help a Drunk Friend

1. Spot the signs early before they get too intoxicated; 2. Keep them calm; 3. Don't let them leave with someone else / stay with them; 4. Don't supply them with drinks & try to hydrate them with water; 5. Call an ambulance if their condition gets worse.

Chlamydia

A curable bacterial infection passed through body fluids during sex, tested via urine sample or swabs, and treated with one dose of antibiotics.

Contraception

Derived from 'Contra' (opposite) and 'ception' (from conception), representing methods used to prevent conception, which are not $100\text{\%}$ effective at preventing STIs.

Hormonal Contraception

Methods containing a small amount of man-made oestrogen and progesterone hormones that inhibit the body's natural cyclical process and usually stop ovulation (e.g., the pill).

Barrier Contraception

Methods that stop the sperm from reaching the egg, such as condoms.

Natural Contraception

Methods relying on the natural rhythm of the female body to predict peak fertility, such as a period tracking app.