Chapter 8 - Eating Disorders

Question 1

Eating disorders are what?

Answer 1

psychological disorders

Question 2

What contains the diagnostic criteria which define eating disorders?

Answer 2

The Diagnostic and Statistical manual (DSM) of the American Psychological Association

Question 3

What are eating disorders a phenomenon of?

Answer 3

Affluent societies

Question 4

Satiety

Answer 4

The sense of satisfaction or fullness after a meal that signals we’ve had enough

Question 5

Normal eating

Answer 5

The appropriate response to need - eat when hungry

Question 6

anorexia nervosa

Answer 6

An eating disorder characterized by starving behavior, being underweight, and amenorrhea

Question 7

Binge

Answer 7

To eat an excessively large amount of food within a discrete period of time, usually considered to be about two hours

Question 8

Binge eating disorder

Answer 8

An eating disorder characterized by binging, without any purging or restriction

Question 9

bulimia nervosa

Answer 9

An eating disorder characterized by binging and purging or other compensatory behaviors such as fasting or excessive exercise

Question 10

Purging

Answer 10

An inapproriate attempt to compensate for overeating through the use of vomiting, laxative abuse, diuretics, or excessive exercise

Question 11

What are the origins of eating disorders?

Answer 11

The dynamics of family, individual, and personality

Question 12

What is the highest incidence of eating disorders?

Answer 12

middle and upper class white females

Question 13

Psychological factors that increase chances of eating disorders

Answer 13

Depression

Anxiety

Physical or sexual abuse

Substance abuse - and bulimia nervosa

Perfectionism

Question 14

Neurotransmitters in Anorexia and Bulimia

Answer 14

Serotonin and norepinephrine tend to be lower

cortisol (stress) - higher

Question 15

First degree relatives of people with anorexia

Answer 15

Have an increased risk of anorexia nervosa and mood disorders such as depression

Question 16

First degree relatives of people with bulimia

Answer 16

Have an increased risk of bulimia nervosa, mood disorders, and substance abuse

Question 17

Emotional eating

Answer 17

Eating disorders represent a way to meet emotional needs through eating behavior

Question 18

disordered eating

Answer 18

practices that lie between normal and clinical eating

Question 19

Obesity is found where?

Answer 19

In parents and siblings or people with bulimia

Question 20

relationship between bulimia nervosa and…

Answer 20

substance abuse

Question 21

Distorted body image especially common in what eating disorder?

Answer 21

Anorexia

Question 22

Sports with high incidence of eating disorders

Answer 22

Women: gymnastics, ballet, and distance running

Men: wrestling

Question 23

muscle dysmorphism

Answer 23

The overwhelming drive to get big muscles

Question 24

prostate

Answer 24

the gland that mixes fluid with sperm to form semen

enlarged in males taking steroids

Question 25

gynecomastia

Answer 25

Increase in nipple and breast size result of steroids in men

Question 26

Restricting time of anorexia

Answer 26

People will starve themselves pure starvation

Question 27

amenorrhea

Answer 27

The cessation of normal menstrual cycles

Question 28

Age onset of anorexia nervosa

Answer 28

usually early adolescence

Question 29

Risk of mortality in people of anorexia nervosa

Answer 29

5-10 percent

Question 30

hypothermia

Answer 30

Low body temperature Skipping meals results in this

Question 31

Lunago

Answer 31

Fine, downy hair development over the body in anorexia

Question 32

Arrhythmia

Answer 32

Loss of heart rhythm; cardiac arrhythmia can result in heart failure Result of electrolyte imbalances

Question 33

Binge

Answer 33

The consumption of a large amount of food in a discrete period of time (2 hours)

Question 34

Tables on page 186

Answer 34

Study them

Question 35

Binging boosts what?

Answer 35

serotonin

Question 36

Carboyhudrate in meal provokes...

Answer 36

the release of insulin, which drives the transport of tryptophan into the brain - precursor of serotonin

Question 37

Hyperthermia

Answer 37

High body temperature a result of binging

Question 38

Purging type of bulimia

Answer 38

self-induced vomiting, laxative abuse, or the use of diuretics or enemas to lose weight

Question 39

Non-purging type of bulimia

Answer 39

engages in fasting or excessive exercise

Question 40

disinhibition

Answer 40

a loss of whatever psychological restraints were holding them back from binging

Question 41

Age onset for bulimia nervosa

Answer 41

late adolescence to early adulthood

Question 42

Female athlete triad

Answer 42

Combination of disordered eating, amenorrhea, and premature osteoporosis