Key question

Question 1

What is the key question?

Answer 1

Are role models and celebrities the cause of anorexia?

Question 2

AO1 - what is anorexia?

Answer 2

Lack or loss of appetite for food, an emotional disorder characterised by an obsessive desire to loose weight by refusing to eat.

Question 3

AO1 - who anorexia effects?

Answer 3

• In USA 20 million women and 10 million men will suffer clinically from an eating disorder
• Highest death rate of all other causes for females ages 15-24

Question 4

AO3 - applying knowledge to eating disorders

Answer 4

Social learning theory- Acting like people we look up to
Operant- post photo - positive reinforcement
Classical - Associate eating with negative experiences eg being sick