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Focus on Health #1
Chapters 1-4 terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| High risk health behavior | A behavioral pattern, such as smoking, associated with high risk of developing a chronic illness. |
| Empowerment | The nurturing of an individual's or group's ability to be responsible for their own health and well-being. |
| holistic health | A view of health in terms of physical, emotional, social, intellectual, spiritual, and occupational makeup |
| Morbidity | Pertaining to illness and disease |
| Mortality | Pertaining to death |
| Nontraditional-age students | Students who are pursuing undergraduate work at an age other than that associated with the traditional college years (18-24). |
| Preventative Medicine | Medical care which focuses on lowering the risk for development of chronic disease |
| Risk factor | Lifestyles behaviors or choices that may lead to the development of chronic illness |
| Traditional-age students | College students between the ages of 18 and 24. |
| Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder | Inability to concentrate well on a specific task; often associated by above-normal physical movement. |
| bipolar disorder | A mood disorder characterized by alternating episodes of depression and mania. |
| learned helplessness | A theory of motivation explaining how individuals can learn to feel powerless, trapped, and defeated. |
| nature | The innate factors that genetically determine personality traits |
| neurotransmitters | Chemical messengers that transfer electrical impulses across the synapses between nerve cells. |
| nurture | The effects that the environment, people, and external factors have on personality. |
| seasonal affective disorder | A type of depression that develops in relation to the changes in the seasons. |
| self-actualization | The highest level of psychological health |
| self-concept | An individual's internal picture of himself or herself; the way one sees oneself |
| self-esteem | An individual's sense of pride, self-respect,value, and worth |
| distress | Stress that diminishes the quality of life; commonly associated with disease, illness, and maladaptation. |
| Eustress | Stress that enhances the quality of life. |
| Fight or flight response | The physiological response to a stressor that prepares the body for confrontation or avoidance. |
| Procastination | A tendency to put off completing tasks until some later time, sometimes resulting in increased stress. |
| Stessors | Factors or events, real, or imagined, that elicit a state of stress. |
| Test anxiety | A form of performance anxiety that generates extreme feelings of distress in exam situations. |
| Cardiorespiratory endurance | The ability of the heart, lungs and blood vessels to process and transport oxygen required by muscle cells so that they can contract over a period of time. |
| Duration | The length of time one needs to exercise at the THR to produce a cardiorespiratory training effect. |
| ergogenic aids | Supplements that are taken to improve athletic performance. |
| Flexibilty | The ability of joints to function through an intended range of motion. |
| Intensity | The level of effort put into an activity. |
| Muscular endurance | The ability of muscles to repeatedly contract over a long period of time. |
| Muscular strength | The ability of muscles to contract to a maximal level. |
| Physical Activity | Any bodily movement produced by skeletal muscles that result in energy expenditure. |
| Physical fitness | A set of attributes that people have or achieve that relates to the ability to perform physical activity. |
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