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College Health Vocab
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health-and-fitness
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Mental representation that a person has of his or her own body - including perceptions - attitudes - thoughts - and emotions.
Carbon Monoxide
stressors
Binge-Eating Disorder
Body Image
2. A feeling of apprehension and dread - with or without a known cause; accompanied by physical symptoms.
Disordered Eating Behaviors
Anorexia Nervosa
Activity Disorder
Anxiety
3. Using self-induced vomiting - laxatives - or diuretics to get rid of excess calories that have been consumed.
Neurotransmitters
Prenatal Care
Panic disorder
Purging
4. A contraceptive method used after unprotected sex to prevent pregnancy.
Positive psychology
Diaphragm
Emergency contraception (EC)
Route of administration
5. Newborn.
Latent Infection
Activity Disorder
homeostasis
Neonate
6. Preoccupation with an imagined or exaggerated defect in appearance.
Instrumental use
Purging
chronic stress
Body Dysmorphic Disorder
7. A positive stress that energizes a person and helps a person reach a goal
Opioids
eustress
Major Depressive Disorder
Opportunistic Infections
8. Circular rubber dome that is inserted in the vagina before intercourse to prevent conception.
Diaphragm
Mental Disorder
Activity Disorder
Tar
9. Respiratory disorder characterized by mucus secretion - cough - and increasing difficulty in breathing.
Chronic Bronchitis
Ultrasound
Self-esteem
Spermicide
10. Controls emotional responses and instinctual - 'gut' reactions. Adolescents appear to rely more heavily on this part of the brain to interpret situations than adults do.
Body Image
Prepregnancy counseling
Amygdala
Cesarean Section (C-section)
11. Relays information between the two hemispheres of the brain and is believed to play a role in creativity and problem solving. Grows and changes significantly during adolescense.
Self-actualization
corpus callosum
Endorphins
Prepregnancy counseling
12. Scarring of the liver as a result of alcohol consumption.
stressors
Purging
Cirrhosis
Phobia
13. Newborn.
Neonate
acute stress
Fatty Liver
Self-actualization
14. Use of a pharmaceutical agent to terminate a pregnancy.
autonomic nervous system
Phobia
homeostasis
Medical abortion
15. Small polyurethane foam device presaturated with spermicide that is inserted in the vagina before intercourse to prevent pregnancy.
Contraceptive sponge
Central nervous System Depressant
Panic disorder
Psychoactive Drug
16. Clear physiological experience of apprehension or intense fear in the absence of a real danger.
chronic stress
Panic Attack
Endorphins
Spontaneous abortion
17. Transmission of an infection or disease from mother to child during pregnancy and delivery.
Body Image
Vertical transmission
Amniocentesis
Self-esteem
18. Controls planning - organizing - rational thinking - working memory - judgment - moood modulaiton. Undergoes rapid growth just before puberty - followed by pruning and consolidation during adolescence.
Purging
Opportunistic Infections
Calorie Restriction
Frontal cortex
19. Structure that develops in the uterus during pregnancy and links the circulatory system of the fetus with that of the mother.
Amniotic sac
Mental Disorder
Signs of addiction
Placenta
20. Eating disorder marked by binge-eating behavior without the vomiting or purging of bulimia.
Medical abortion
Diaphragm
Low birth weight
Binge-Eating Disorder
21. Technique for testing fetal cells for chromosomal abnormalities by removing a sample of amniotic fluid from the amniotic sac.
Amniocentesis
Microbicide
Hallucinogens
Ultrasound
22. Technique for testing fetal cells for chromosomal abnormalities by removing a sample of amniotic fluid from the amniotic sac.
Latent Infection
Amniocentesis
Body Image
Microbicide
23. Combination of birth defects caused by prenatal exposure to alcohol - characterized by abnormal facial apparance - slow growth - mental retardation - and social - emotional - and behavior problems.
Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS)
Calorie Restriction
Surgical abortion
Eating Disorders
24. Brain chemicals thta conduct signals from one brain cell to the next.
Muscle Dysmorphia
Route of administration
stressors
Neurotransmitters
25. Natural and synthetic derivatives of opium.
Chronic villus sampling (CVS)
Opioids
hostility
Diaphragm
26. Membrane that surrounds the fetus in the uterus and contains amniotic fluid.
Fertility awareness-based methods
cerebellum
Psychoactive Drug
Amniotic sac
27. Surgical procedure that permanently prevents any future pregnancies.
Sterilization
Major Depressive Disorder
Activity Disorder
Depressants
28. Compound or chemical in the form of a cream - gel - or suppository that would kill microorganisms and that could be applied topically to the vagina or rectum before intercourse - reducing the risk of STD transmission.
Female Athlete Triad
Microbicide
chronic stress
Emotional Intelligence
29. Physiological process by which the mothers bady expels the baby during birth.
Cervical cap
Tar
Labor
Universal Precautions
30. A pregnancy in which a fertilized egg implants or attaches itself outside of the uterus - usually in a fallopian tube.
Ectopic pregnancy
Female Athlete Triad
Prenatal Care
Disordered Eating Behaviors
31. A life-threatening blood alcohol concentration.
Frontal Cortex
Psychoactive drug
Acute Alcohol Intoxication
Vertical transmission
32. According to the DSM-IV-TR - a pattern of behavior that is associated with distress (pain) aor disability (impairment in an important area of functioning - suchas school or work) or with significantly increased risk of suffering - death - pain - disa
Depressants
affirmations
Mental Disorder
Emergency contraception (EC)
33. Selyes classic model used to describe the physiological changes associated with the stress response. The three phases are alarm - resistance - and exhaustion.
hostility
Tubal ligation
Alcoholic Hepatitis
general adaptation syndrome
34. Controls planning - organizing - rational thinking - working memory - judgment - moood modulaiton. Undergoes rapid growth just before puberty - followed by pruning and consolidation during adolescence.
Frontal cortex
Emphysema
Neonate
Infertility
35. Circular rubber dome that is inserted in the vagina before intercourse to prevent conception.
Disordered Eating Behaviors
Diaphragm
Opioids
Cervical cap
36. Smoke from other people's tobacco products; also called secondhand smoke or passive smoking.
Calorie Restriction
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS)
Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS)
Body Image
37. Interrelated conditions of disordered eating - amenorrhea - and osteoporosis.
Female Athlete Triad
general adaptation syndrome
Licit Drug
Body Dysmorphic Disorder
38. Dependence on a substance or a behavior.
stress
affirmations
Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS)
addiction
39. Use of a pharmaceutical agent to terminate a pregnancy.
Carbon Monoxide
Depression
Medical abortion
hardiness
40. Positive thoughts that you can write down or say to yourself to balance negative thoughts.
affirmations
Asthma
Licit Drug
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS)
41. Infant death before or at the time of expected birth.
Surgical abortion
Panic Attack
Stillbirth
Fertility awareness-based methods
42. A reduction in calorie intake below daily needs.
Prenatal Care
Calorie Restriction
Alcoholic Hepatitis
Elective abortion
43. Potentially life-threatening disease that can develop during pregnancy - marked by seizures and coma.
Body Dysmorphic Disorder
stress
corpus callosum
Eclampsia
44. Conditions characterized by severely disturbed eating behaviors and distorted body image; eating disorders jeopardize physical and psychological health.
Illicit Drugs
Eating Disorders
Bipolar Disorder
affirmations
45. Surgical delivery of the infant through the abdominal wall.
Toxic shock syndrome (TSS)
Labor
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS)
Cesarean Section (C-section)
46. In Maslow's work - the state attained when a person has reached his or her full potenial.
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS)
Self-actualization
sympathetic branch
Psychoactive Drug
47. The sympathetic branch starts your stress response while the parasympathetic branch-ends your stress response
stress response or fight or flight response
hostility
Disordered Eating Behaviors
autonomic nervous system
48. In Golemen's work the kind of intelligence that includes an understanding of emotional experience - self-awareness - and sensitivity to others.
Universal Precautions
Emotional Intelligence
Psychoactive drug
Neonate
49. Complicated drug combinations used to overcome drug resistance in different strains of HIV.
stress
Tubal ligation
Resilience
Drug Cocktails
50. Substance other than food that affects the structure or function of the body through its chemical action.
Drug
addiction
stressors
Placenta