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| the characteristics of a person that are apparent to others |
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| the characteristics that a person sees in himself or herself |
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| the scientific stufy of behavior and the mind |
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| changeable factors that affect outcomes |
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| a ranking system in which each thing is places above or below others |
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| urgent wants for necessary things |
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| the reaching of one's full potential; the highest attainable state in Maslow's hierarchy of needs |
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| the period of growth from the beginning of puberty to full maturity |
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| the period of life in which a person becomes physically capable of reproduction |
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| the classification of being male or female |
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| roles assigned by society to people of each gender |
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| the part of a persons self-image thatis determined by the person's gender |
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| traits, including biological and social traits, associated with being female |
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| traits, including bioloogical and social traits, associated with being male |
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| fixed pictures of how everyone in a group is thought to be; ideas that do not recognize anyone's individuality. |
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| unwanted sexual attention, often from someone in power, that makes the victim feel uncomfortable |
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| the value a person attaches to his or her self-image (important part of emotional health) |
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| the practice of making affirming statements about oneself to oneself, helpful in building self-esteem |
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| the way a person thinks his or her body looks, which may or may not be the way it actually does look |
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| groups of people who are similar in age and stage of life |
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| the internal pressure one feels to behave as a peer group does, in order to gain its members' approval |
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| peer groups that reject newcomes and that judge both their members and nonmenbers harshly |
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| peer groups that exist largely to express aggression against other groups |
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| groups of people who share intense admiration or adoration of a particular person or principle |
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| outside the normal system |
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| a set of social strategies that enable people to competently resist the pressure by others to engagein dangerous or otherwise undesirable behaviors |
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| Erikson's Eight Stages Of Life |
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-based on age -at each stage, there are tasks to master or lessons to learn -if task is not mastered, it negatively impacts all other stages |
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| Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs |
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-Theory based on needs to be met -Needs are met on a personal basis, not age related -Can't skip a need and go to the next -Ladder analogy |
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| the effect of physical and psychological demands(stressors) on a person. |
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| stress that provides a welcome challenge (good stress) |
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| stress that is perceived as negative (bad stress) |
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| unrelieved stress that continues to tax a person's resources to the point of exhaustion; stress that is damaging to the health |
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| a temporary bout of stress taht calls forth alertness or alarm to prompt the person to deal with an event |
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| a demand placed on the body to adapt |
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| to change or adjust in order to accomodate new conditions |
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| a meaning given to an event or occurrence based on a person's previous experience or understanding |
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| the body system of nervous tissues- organized into the brain, spinal cord, and nerves- that send and receive messages and integrate the body's activities |
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| the system of glands- organs that send and receive blood-borne chemical messages- that control body functions in cooperation with the nervous system |
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| the cells, tissues, and organs that protect the body from disease. The immune system is composed of the white blood cells, bone marrow, thymus gland, spleen, and other parts |
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| a chemical that serves as a messenger. Each is secreted by a gland and travels to one or more target organs, where it brings about response. |
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| an organ of the body that secretes one or more hormones |
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| epinephrine and norepinephrine, secreted as part of the reaction of the nervous system to stress |
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| epinephrine,norepinephrine |
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| two of the stress hormones; also called adrenaline and noradrenaline |
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| the body's capacity for identifying, destroying, and disposing of disease-causing agents |
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| the response to a demand or stressor. Three phases |
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| The first phase of the stress response, in which the person faces a challenge and starts pating attention to it |
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| the 2nd phase of the stress response, in which the body mobilizes its resources to withstand the effects of the stress |
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| a healthy third phase of the stress response, in which the body returns to normal |
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| a harmful third phase of the stress response, in which stress exceeds the body's ability to recover |
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| the body's response to immediate physical danger; the stress response. Energy is mobilized, either to mount an aggressive response against the danger, or to run away |
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| nonharmful ways of dealing with sress, such as displacement or ventilation |
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| channeling the energy of suffering into something else- for example, using the emotional energy churned up by problems to do tasks or other familiar activities |
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| the act of verbally ventiong one's feelings; letting off steam by talking, crying, swearing, or laughing |
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| self-destructive ways of dealing with stress; automatic, subconscious reactions to emotional injury, such as denial, fantasy, projection rationalizing, regression, selective forgetting or withdrawal |
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| the opposite of the stress response; the normal state of the body |
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| a clinical technique used to help a person learn to relax by monitoring muscle rension, heart rate, brainwave activity, or other body activities |
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| progressive muscle relaxation |
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| a technique of learning to relax by focusing on relaxing each of the body's muscle groups in turn. |
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| the healing effect that faith in medicine, even inert medicine, often has |
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| moral principles or values |
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| people pretending to have medical skills, and usually have products for sale |
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| patterns of behavior or thinking that cause a person to feel significant emotional pain or to be unable to function in any one or more of three important areas-social or family relations, occupation(including social performance), or use of leisure time |
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| a mental illness, a condition of losing touch with reality accompanied by reduced ability to function (unable to distinguish fantasy from reality) |
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| dependence on a substance, habit, or behavior |
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| abnormal food intake stemming from emotional causes and related to addiction. |
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anorexia: starve to loose weight bulimia: binge on food, then vomit |
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| the condition of feeling apathetic, hopeless, and withdrawn from others. |
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| sleep abnormalities, including difficulty in falling asleep and wakefulness through the night |
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| an emotional state of high energy, with the stress response as the body's reaction to it |
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| post-traumatic stress disorder |
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| a reaction to stress such as wartime suffering or rape, arising after the event is over |
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| a sudden, unexpected episode of sever anxiety with symptoms such as rapid heartbeat, sweating, dizziness, and nausea |
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| an extreme, irrational fear of an object or situation |
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obsessive-compulsive disorder |
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| the uncontrollable need to perform repetitive acts |
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| irresistable impulses to perform senseless act |
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| the normal feeling that arises from the conscience when a person acts against an internal value ("I did a bad thing") |
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| the extreme feeling of guilt that arises when a person internalizes mistakes ("I am a bad person because I did it") |
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the brand name of one drug of a group of drugs. used to restore normal brain chemistry in people with depression. |
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| a person who is so focused on the needs of others that the person's own needs are neglected |
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| misguided "helping". Person who actually does harm by supporting a troubled person's continued self-destructice attitude or behavior. |
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| attention-deficit/ hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) |
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| an inability to pat attention, often with hyperactivity and poor impulse control. ADHD is most often diagnosed in children younger than age 7. It interferes with home life, schoolwork, or other functions. |
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| any of a number of nerve or brain disfunctions that interfere with normal learning, believed to affect 2 to 3 children in each class of 30. The disorders may affect attention, memory, language, organizational skills, problem solving, social awareness, and other aspects of learning |
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| the ability to wait and think before acting or speaking |
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| a condition of excessive acticity. |
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| emotional problems can effect: |
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1. socail or family relations 2. performance of tasks (including schoolwork) 3. leisure time activites |
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| causes of emotional problems |
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1. brain damage from drugs 2. injuries and disease 3. unbalanced body chemistry 4. passed through family |
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