Deck 2: Achieving Psychological Health

Question 1

What relationship is there between humor and psychological health?

Answer 1

The humor of a person is related to the psychological health. It is observed that the people with good humor have a good psychological health.
The people with bad humor are often found to be in a state of bad psychological health. They have a habit of getting offended easily.
The good humor is good for state of mind. A person can stay out of depression, anxiety, sadness, guilt when he/she has got good humor.
The mind of a person with good humor stays out of tension in most cases and the person is able to respond well to the circumstances and situations.
Thus a good humor can be really helpful for the people because it can maintain the physical, mental, social and emotional health of a person.

Question 2

Mental disorders are the leading cause of disability in the United States. True or False?

Answer 2

True

Question 3

What is nonverbal communication?

Answer 3

The non-verbal communication is a communication which does not involve use of language by the people who are doing interaction.
The mode of expression of thoughts can be visual, auditory, tactile, kinesthetic or any other form which does not involve the use of language.
A person can make use of kinesthetic communication where the expression of thoughts can be done through the body movements.
A person can adopt the method of tactile communication where the expression of thoughts is done by touching instead of speaking.
A person may choose the method of auditory communication of visual communication. In visual communication the thoughts are expressed through transfer of ideas and information.

Question 4

Middle-aged individuals have a higher risk of suicide than the elderly or young people. True or False?

Question 5

Describe Maslow's theory of the hierarchy of needs.

Question 6

Schizophrenia is a mental disorder that involves having dissociative identity disorder. True or False?

Question 7

How can having a positive interpretation of life's events make a significant difference in people's health?

Question 8

How is clinical depression different from having the "blues"?

Question 9

What are three factors that have been associated with psychological health?

Question 10

How should you respond to someone threatening or talking about committing suicide?

Question 11

Psychological health has been associated with having a good sense of humor. True or False?

Question 12

What are the characteristics commonly demonstrated by psychologically healthy people?

Question 13

Self-esteem is the highest level of psychological health on Maslow's hierarchy of needs. True or False?

Question 14

What is the definition of self-esteem, and how can self-esteem be enhanced?

Question 15

Pessimists tend to live longer than optimists do. True or False?

Question 16

What characterizes people with overall high levels of emotional intelligence?

Question 17

It has been proven that personality is influenced more by heredity than by environment. True or False?