Anorexia N

Question 1

____ ____ has three characteristics: restriction of behaviors to promote a healthy body weight, an intense fear of gaining weight and being fat, and a distorted body image.

Answer 1

Anorexia nervosa

Question 2

Anorexia usually begins in the early ____ years and is more common in women than men.

Answer 2

teen

Question 3

____ changes that can occur after severe weight loss can be serious and life threatening.

Answer 3

Bodily

Question 4

About __ percent of women with anorexia eventually recover, but it can take many years.

Answer 4

70

Question 5

DSM-5 Criteria for ____ ____ Restriction of food that leads to very low body weight; body weight is significantly below normal Intense fear of weight gain Body image disturbance

Answer 5

Anorexia Nervosa

Question 6

____ factors appear to play a role in both anorexia and bulimia. Both disorders tend to run in families, and twin studies support the role of genetics in the actual disorders and particular characteristics of the disorders, such as body preoccupation with thinness, and binge eating.

Answer 6

Genetic

Question 7

The hypothalamus does not appear to be directly involved in eating disorders, and low levels of ____ ____ are seen concurrently with bulimia, but not before the onset of the disorder. Thus, changes in food intake could affect the opioid system instead of changes in the opioid system affecting food intake.

Answer 7

endogenous opioids

Question 8

Research findings on the role of ____ in anorexia are mixed. Serotonin may play a role in bulimia, with studies finding a decrease in serotonin metabolites and smaller responses to serotonin agonists.

Answer 8

serotonin

Question 9

Newer research suggests ____ may play a role in restrained eating, a characteristic that is found in people with eating disorders.

Answer 9

dopamine

Question 10

The ____ factors do not do a particularly good job of accounting for some key features of anorexia and bulimia, in particular the intense fear of becoming fat.

Answer 10

neurobiological

Question 11

____ ____ theories focus on body dissatisfaction, preoccupation with thinness and attention and memory.

Answer 11

Cognitive behavioural

Question 12

The ____ Scale measures concerns about dieting and overeating and high scores are linked to binge eating among people without eating disorders.

Answer 12

Restraint

Question 13

The eating pattern of people with bulimia and binge eating disorder is similar to, but more ____ than, the behaviour highlighted in the studies of restrained eaters.

Answer 13

extreme

Question 14

Studies have found that concerns about body shape and weight ____ restrained eating, which in turn predicted an increase in binge eating.

Answer 14

predicted

Question 15

People with eating disorders pay greater attention to food and body-image-related things, and they tend to remember these better as well, suggesting that their ____ and ____ may be biased toward food and body image.

Answer 15

attention and memory

Question 16

Sociocultural factors, including society’s preoccupation with thinness, may play a role in eating disorders. This preoccupation is linked to dieting efforts, and ____ precedes the development of eating disorders among many people.

Answer 16

dieting

Question 17

In addition, the preoccupation with thinness, as well as media portrayals of thin models predicts an increase in body ____, which also precedes the development of eating disorders.

Answer 17

dissatisfaction

Question 18

____ associated with being overweight also contributes.

Answer 18

Stigma

Question 19

Women are more likely to have eating disorders than men, and the ways in which women’s bodies are ____ may lead some women to see their bodies as others do (self-objectify), which in turn may increase body dissatisfaction and eating pathology.

Answer 19

objectified

Question 20

Eating disorders are slightly more common among ____ ____ than women of colour. Eating disorders used to be more common among women of higher socioeconomic status, but this is less true today.

Answer 20

white women

Question 21

Research on personality characteristics finds that ____ may play a role. Other personality characteristics that predicted disordered eating across 3 years include body dissatisfaction, the extent to which people can distinguish different biological states of their bodies, and a propensity to experience negative emotions.

Answer 21

perfectionism

Question 22

Troubled family ____ are fairly common among people with eating disorders, but this could be a result of the eating disorder, not necessarily a cause of it.

Answer 22

relationships

Question 23

High rates of ____ and ____ abuse are found among people with eating disorders, but these are not risk factors specific to the development of eating disorders.

Answer 23

sexual and physical

Question 24

Psychiogical treatment of anorexia must first focus on ____ ____. Family therapy is common for anorexia, but studies are needed to deteremine whether this is effective.

Answer 24

weight gain