ch 10- dress and media

Question 1

primary influences in the tripartite model

Answer 1

media, family, and peers

Question 2

two factors that can mediate relationship between partite model influences and eating disorders

Answer 2

appearance comparison & internalization of media images

Question 3

examples of social responsibility and digital retouching

Answer 3

• french “photoshop” law: digitally altered photos must be labeled
• getty images not publishing photos that have models body shape altered
  -cvs pharmacy is no longer using “materially” airbrushed images

Question 4

thinspiration & fitspiration sites

Answer 4

• thin (pro-ana) support weightlass and eating disorders
  -fitspir allegedly advocate a fit and helathy lifestyle

Question 5

objectification of the body

Answer 5

refers to the phenomenon of regarding people as things, objects or focusing on one part of the body rather than the whole person

Question 6

sexual objectification

Answer 6

refers to the practice of veiwing another person as their sexual and physical attractiveness characteristics are prioritized or viewed apart from other components of the self and reduced to instruments of pleasure for another individual

Question 7

media activism

Answer 7

protesting (praising) media messages, advertisements, or products that are identified as conveying (contradicting) unhealthy messages