| A | B |
|---|
| life managment skills | the skills that help a person to relize his/her potential to be well and to enjoy life |
| health | freedom from physical disease |
| wellness | the top of the range of health states |
| infectious disease | disease caused by by toxins |
| lifestyle choices | daily choices on how to to treat your body and mind |
| lifestyle diseases | disease that effects the body caused by daily choices made |
| chronical age | age measured in years from birth |
| physiological age | age as estimated from the body's health and probable life expectancy |
| cenetarians | people over 100 years old |
| motivation | the force that moves people to act |
| drives | motivations that are learned |
| commitment | a long term decission |
| will | a persons intent |
| personiality | the characteristice of a person people see |
| self- image | characteristics that a person see in him/herself |
| variables | changable factors |
| hierarchy | a ranking system in which people are put higher or lower than others |
| needs | necessary things |
| self- actualization | the reaching of one's full potential |
| adolescence | the peroid of time from the beginning of puberty to full muturity |
| puberity | when a person becomes physically able to reproduce |
| sterotypes | fixed pictures on how everyone in a group is thought to be |
| gender | the classification of being male or female |
| gender roles | roles assigned by society to people of each gender |
| gender idenity | the part of a person's self image that is determained by the person's gender |
| femininity | traits associated with being female |
| masculinity | traits associated with being male |
| self- esteem | the value a peron attaches too his/her self image |
| positive self-talk | the practice of making affirming statements about oneself |
| positive imaging | a technique used to help acheive the relaxation response |
| body image | the way a person thinks his/her body looks |
| peer groups | groups of people who are similar in age |
| peer pressure | the internal pressure on feels to behave as a peer group does |
| cliques | peer groups that reject new comers and judges their mambers harshly |
| gangs | peer groups that exist largely to express aggression aginst other groups |
| cults | groups of people who share intense admiration or adoration of a particular person or principle |
| deviant | outside the normal system |
| stress | the effect of physical and phychological demands on the body |
| chronic stress | unrelieved stress |
| acute stress | a temporary bout of stress |
| stressor | a ddemand placed on the body to adapt |
| adapt | a change or adjustment to new conditions |
| nervous system | the systems of nerves organized in the brain, spinal cord and nerves that recieves message & intergrate the body's activities |
| hormonal system | the system of glands organs that send and receive blood born chemical messages |
| immune system | the cells, tissues, and organs that protect the body from disease composed of white blod cells |
| horomonal | a chemicall that serves as a messanger |
| gland | an organ of the body that secretes one or more hormones |
| stress hormones | secreted as part of the reaction of the nervous system to stress |
| epinephine | one of the stress hormones |
| norepinephine | two of the stress hormones |
| immunity | the body's capacity for identifyind disease causing agents |
| stress response | the respose to a demand or stressor |
| alarm | the first phase of the stress rsponse the person starts paying attention to the signs |
| resistance | the second phase of the stress response, the body mobolized |
| recovery | a healthy third phase, the body then goes back to normal |
| exhaustion | a harmful third phase a break down follows it |
| fight- or- flight reaction | the body's response to immediate physical danger |
| coping devices | nonharmful ways of dealing eithe stress |
