Health - Ch 15 Vocab

Chapter 15 Vocab

1. Emotions: Moods and feelings that you experience
2. Optimism: The ability to keep a positive outlook
3. Resilience: The ability to recover from traumatic or stressful events
4. Emotional Intelligence: The skill of identifying one’s own emotions and understanding the emotions of others
5. Empathy: The ability to imagine yourself in someone else’s place, and to understand someone’s wants, needs, and point of view
6. Identity: Who you are, which includes your physical traits, activities, social connections, and internal thoughts and feelings
7. Gender Identity: A person’s biological makeup - male or female - and how a person experiences or expresses that makeup
8. Gender Roles: Attitudes and behaviors that a society considers “appropriate” for males or females
9. Androgynous: A term that describes a person who exhibits feminine and masculine traits equally
10. Gender Stereotypes: Culturally defined assumptions about what it means to be male or female
11. Ethnicity: A person’s connection to a cultural or national social group
12. Self-Image: Your mental picture of yourself
13. Self-Esteem: Your feelings of self-worth
14. Self-Actualization: The feeling that you are striving toward and becoming the best person you can be
15. Philanthropists: Individuals who make donations to improve others’ lives and well-being
16. Citizenship: The legal status of being entitled to the rights and duties of a community
17. Rumination: The act of thinking repeatedly about something for a long period of time