2.4 Vocab P.4 Camila H.

Body Image

Your thoughts and feelings about how your body looks.

Positive body image

An accepting and respectful attitude toward your body.

Negative body image

Dissatisfied or critical thoughts and feelings about your body.

Appearance

The way someone or something looks.

Physical traits

Body features, such as height, hair color, or body shape.

Internal characteristics

Personal qualities, such as kindness, creativity, or patience.

Identity

The qualities, beliefs, and experiences that make you who you are.

Perception

 How you see or understand something, which may differ from reality.

Influence

The ability to affect someone’s thoughts, feelings, or actions.

Peer pressure

 Influence from people your age to look, think, or behave a certain way.

Society

A community of people connected by shared relationships, customs, and institutions

Media

Forms of communication, including television, magazines, and websites.

Social media

Online platforms where people share content and interact.

Advertising

Messages designed to promote products, services, or ideas.

Physical ideal

A standard of appearance presented as especially desirable.

Idealized image

An image that presents someone as unusually perfect or desirable

Representation

The way people, groups, or ideas are presented.

Image editing

Changing a photograph or other image after it is created.

Airbrushing

Retouching an image to smooth skin or change visible features.

Weight stigma

Negative beliefs, judgments, or unfair treatment based on body weight

Muscle dysmorphia

A condition involving intense concern that one’s body is not muscular enough, even when it is muscular.

Eating disorder

A mental health condition involving serious disturbances in eating behaviors and related thoughts or feelings.

Risk factor

Something associated with a greater chance of developing a problem.

Race

A social category often based on perceived physical traits, such as skin color.

Ethnicity

A shared cultural background that may include ancestry, language, and traditions.

Racial identity

 A person’s sense of connection to a racial group.

Ethnic identity

A person’s sense of belonging to an ethnic or cultural group.

Body diversity

The natural variety of human body shapes, sizes, and appearances.

Values

Beliefs about what is important or worthwhile.

Critical thinking

Carefully examining information before deciding what to believe.

Analyze

To examine something closely to understand its parts and meaning

Strategy

A planned approach for reaching a goal or managing a problem.

Self-talk

The thoughts or messages you direct toward yourself.

Body compassion

Acceptance, care, and kindness toward your body.

Acceptance

Recognizing yourself as you are without treating differences or imperfections as failures.

Body positivity

Valuing bodies and appreciating differences in body shape, size, and appearance

Body criticism

Negative comments or judgments about someone’s body.

Negative influence

Something that encourages harmful or discouraging thoughts or actions.

Support

 Help, care, or encouragement.

Advocate

To speak or act in support of a person, cause, or idea.