Health Chapter 2 Vocabulary

What term is used to describe a set of behaviors, attitudes, feelings, and ways of thinking that are unique to an individual?

• Self-actualization

• Personality

• Self-esteem

• Defense mechanism

Which concept refers to an arrangement of human needs in a pyramid with physical needs at the base and self-actualization at the top?

• Hierarchy of needs

• Coping strategy

• Grief

• Identity

What is the term for a coping strategy that helps protect a person from difficult feelings by refusing to recognize an emotion or problem?

• Compensation

• Denial

• Projection

• Regression

What is the term for the process by which people achieve their full potential?

• Self-esteem

• Self-actualization

• Identity

• Primary emotion

Which term describes an emotion that is expressed by people in all cultures?

• Learned emotion

• Grief

• Primary emotion

• Reaction formation

What term is used to describe the process of attributing one's own feelings or faults to another person or group?

• Projection

• Denial

• Compensation

• Regression

Which term refers to the belief in one's ability to succeed in specific situations or accomplish a task?

• Self-esteem

• Self-efficacy

• Self-actualization

• Identity

What is the term for the defense mechanism in which unacceptable impulses are transformed into their opposite?

• Reaction formation

• Denial

• Projection

• Compensation

What term is used to describe the process of returning to behaviors characteristic of a younger age, rather than dealing with problems in a mature manner?

• Regression

• Denial

• Projection

• Compensation

Which term refers to the process of making up for weaknesses in one area by achieving in another?

• Compensation

• Denial

• Projection

• Regression