Grade 12 Life Orientation Study Notes: Stress, Career, and Rights

These vocabulary flashcards provide definitions for core concepts found in the Grade 12 Life Orientation study notes, covering stress management, career planning, and human rights.

Stress

What we feel in situations we find difficult, challenging, or even frightening, especially when we feel we cannot cope.

Good Stress

Stress that makes you ready for action by providing adrenalin and energy, typically for a short term, such as speaking in front of a class.

Bad Stress

Unhealthy stress that exceeds your ability to cope, potentially leading to illness, unhappiness, depression, and poor task performance.

Stressor

Anything, event, or person that triggers stress.

Cortisol

A stress hormone produced by fear that results in anxiety.

Adrenalin

A stress hormone that prepares the body to react physically to a threat.

Personal Mission Statement

A description of an individual's values, dreams, attitudes, and goals used to explore and identify what is important to them.

Values

The things that an individual chooses and that are important in their life, serving as the code by which they live.

Belief System

The way a person tries to understand the world and their place in it, including their set of beliefs about what is right and wrong.

Ideologies

An organized set of beliefs, values, and ideas regarding how one should live and how society should operate, such as democracy or nationalism.

Formative Assessment

A type of assessment that happens while working on a task to help the learner and teacher determine how the student is coping.

Summative Assessment

An assessment that occurs at the end of a term, chapter, or project to measure management over a period of time.

SQ3 Method

An effective study technique that stands for Survey, Read, Recall, and Review.

Analyse

To break up into separate parts and discuss, examine, interpret, explore, and investigate each part while explaining how they are linked.

Unemployment

The state of being willing to work, ready for work, and wanting a job, but unable to get one because there are not enough jobs available.

Volunteering

Giving time and skills to help others without expecting payment, which helps build confidence and explore career interests.

Entrepreneur

A person who takes an idea or opportunity, accepts financial risks, and turns it into a profitable enterprise.

Income Tax

A tax levied on all income and profits received by taxpayers, which serves as the government's main source of revenue.

Tax Threshold

The income level ($R63\,556$ a year) below which an individual is not required to pay income tax.

Responsible Citizenship

Fulfilling the duties of a citizen, such as respecting human rights, being concerned for the welfare of others, and obeying the law.

Bill of Rights

A cornerstone of democracy in South Africa that outlines the basic human rights all people in the country should enjoy and respect.

Electronic Media

Media requiring electricity or batteries, including the Internet, emails, social media (Facebook, Twitter), radio, TV, and DVDs.

Print Media

Media including books, newspapers, magazines, pamphlets, brochures, posters, and billboards.

Freedom of Expression

The right to express ideas and opinions freely through speech, writing, and other forms of communication, within constitutional limits.

Statutory Rape

Unlawful sex with an individual under the age of consent ($16$ years).

Lifestyle Diseases

Diseases resulting from the way a person lives, influenced by factors like diet, smoking, and lack of exercise, such as diabetes or heart disease.

Natural Disaster

A sudden event caused by nature, such as fires, floods, tsunamis, or earthquakes, that causes great damage or loss of life.

Environmental Hazard

A danger, risk, or threat usually caused by humans, such as pollution, toxic waste, or deforestation.

Labour Relations Act (LRA)

A law that covers all interaction between employers and employees, trade unions, and employers' organizations.

Work Ethics

A worker's attitude towards their job and employer, involving accountability, honesty, commitment, and respect.