Chapter 9 Flashcards
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Eating disorders
Anorexia Vs Belima Vs Binge
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Anorexia: fear of becoming fat
Belima: lack of control. Fear of not being able to stop eating.
Binge: no control. Can’t stop eating until compulsion is over.
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What are the general psychological factors in health and disease?
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Stress, hostility, depression, hopelessness, and job control seems associated with psychological health
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Eating disorders treatment and causal factors
Anorexia
Belima
Binge
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Treatment:
CBT (focus on beliefs)
Body image exposure
Pharmacotherapy
Causal factors:
Teasing
Societal expectations
Peer pressure
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Dissociative amnesia
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Memory failure caused by serious stress. Unable to recall autobiographical information.
4 types:
- localized: forgetting things from just the traumatic event
- Continuous: forget event + current memories
- Systemized: specific forgetting (the one person who caused trauma)
- Generalized: forget life history
