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Do role models in the media cause anorexia
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The eating disorder anorexia which can be identified by the symptom to the low weight and taking appertite suppression pills have long-term effects such as nerve damage to the brain
It is often thought that modern day anorexia is caused by the Social Norm in western society that the Body Image is of people should be slim
If celebrities from the media were causing anorexia this would have negative implications to Society
as many people would try to ban celebrity influence on body images by for example banning fashion magazines from using Photoshop
Social learning theory can be used to explain anorexia
When people observe an role models e.g slim celebrities from western society im media such as magazines advertising their diets
This is retained by people reading it
Then that behaviour slash diet is imitative as their attempting to get the weight of that slim celebrity this damage is their health severely giving anorexia the reason why they do this is because they have the external motivation of being slim and vicarious motivation that is celebrities are getting praised for their body and they want to be proposed so they imitate the celebrities but diet is rubbished so they just get anorexia
Support for social learning theory bandora 1961
He found that children imitated role models aggression towards bobo dolls he also found that they imitated the same sex models more than different sex models this is evidence to support the statistic that anorexia is 20% more common in females mainly due to diet celebrities also mainly being females
Operant conditioning to explain anorexia
Anorexia sufferers will be positively reinforced by attention received by losing weight and negatively reinforced by less insult after losing weight this encourages the behavior to be repeated that’s why operant conditioning is a possible explanation to anorexia
An alternative explanation could be the anorexia is caused by biological factors
It could be down to genetics does have been inherited or low serotonin
Low levels of serotonin has been proven to lead to anxiety which perhaps has led to anorexia as people are anxious about their body not being good enough so they essentially starve themselves to get the social norm for Western Body Image Styles which is Slim
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Social learning theory explaining anorexia
Bandora 1961 support anorexia and social learning theory
Operant conditioning as an explanation of anorexia
Biology alternative as an explanation to anorexia low serotonin and anxiety
