Chapter 15: Achieving Mental and Emotional Health—Self-Assessment Quiz

Which of the following factors affects self-esteem?
A. home, school, community, and cultural environments
B. social interactions with family members, friends, and others
C. media, such as television, movies, and social networking sites
D. all of the above
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Which of the following factors affects self-esteem?
A. home, school, community, and cultural environments
B. social interactions with family members, friends, and others
C. media, such as television, movies, and social networking sites
D. all of the above
D. all of the above
Which of the following is not a strategy for improving intellectual health?
A. evaluating decisions after you have executed them
B. developing a new skill or interest
C. playing games that strengthen your knowledge, creativity, or problem-solving skills
D. none of the above
D. none of the above
A philanthropist is an individual who _____.
makes donations to improve others' lives and well-being
In the top tier of Maslow's hierarchy, people are concerned with which of the following?
A. meeting basic needs (water, food, clothing, shelter)
B. feeling safe in their environment
C. achieving self-actualization
D. feeling accepted by others
C. achieving self-actualization
_____ is the status of a person who is entitled to the rights and duties of a community.
Citizenship
The ability to identify one's own emotions and understand the emotions of others is called _____.
emotional intelligence
A person's connection to a cultural group is known as _____.
ethnicity
_____ are attitudes and behaviors that a society considers "appropriate" for males or females.
Gender roles
_____ is a person's biological makeup—male or female—and how a person experiences or expresses that makeup
Gender identity
_____ is the ability to imagine yourself in someone else's place and to understand someone else's wants, needs, and point of view.
Empathy
According to Erik Erickson, people develop either a sense of personal identity or confusion about identity between 12 and 18 years of age.True.Social identity is defined as one's engagement in particular activities and interests, such as science, music, sports, and community service.False.People with high emotional intelligence are skilled at understanding the emotions that other people are feeling.True.The belief that only boys should play football is an example of an identity stereotype.False.An American teenager who speaks a Celtic language, participates in Irish dancing competitions, and annually visits Ireland with her family has a strong sense of ethnicity.True.The ability to recover from stressful and traumatic events is called resilience.True.Gender roles are culturally-defined assumptions about what it means to be male or female.False.Self-reflection is the act of thinking repeatedly about something for a long period of time, which is a habit of negative thinking that can trigger anxiety and depression.False.The term androgynous refers to people who exhibit feminine and masculine traits equally.True.Self-actualization is the feeling that you are striving toward and becoming the best person you can be.True.