Learning: Key Question

Question 1

What is the learning key question?

Answer 1

Does media influence eating disorders?

Question 2

What is some facts about eating disorders?

Answer 2

Symptoms include:
-Person doesn’t maintain body weight.
-Have a distorted body image.
-Usually in teenage years.
Media does this by using size 0 models, photoshopping and focusing on diet culture.

Question 3

How can social learning theory explain eating disorders?

Answer 3

-Celebrities and models used to advertise clothing and receive the reward of praise so copy/ influences body image.

Question 4

How can classical conditioning explain eating disorders?

Answer 4

associates fashion/thinness with fame and popularity.

Question 5

How can operant conditioning explain eating disorders?

Answer 5

Positive reinforcement- if someone is complimented on wight loss they will continue losing weight.