Topic 2; hunger, eating and body weight control

Question 1

what has evolution done

Answer 1

given our brains ways of helping us select the foods we need

Question 2

conditioned aversion

Answer 2

if your first sample of tasty food or drink is followed sometime later by nausea or vomiting, you may find that the food is not tasty the next time you try it

Question 3

conditioned satiety

Answer 3

the fullness we feel after a meal is at least in part a product of learning

Question 4

allisthesia

Answer 4

food tastes better when one is hungry

Question 5

factors that leads to weight gain;

Answer 5

1) genetics 2) calorie intake (overeating)

Question 6

one way to get evidence about genetics in obesity

Answer 6

study identical twins

Question 7

one adaptive response to scarcitiy

Answer 7

overeat and store in our bodies as much food as possible

Question 8

anorexia nervosa

Answer 8

• characterized by extreme, self-imposed weight loss
• at least 15 percent of the individuals minimum normal weight
• 20 times more likely to occur in women than in men
• majority are young women between their teens and their thirties

Question 9

bulimia

Answer 9

characterized by recurrent episodes of binge eating, followed by attempts to purge

Question 10

objectification theory

Answer 10

raised in a culture that sexually objectifies the female body fundamentally alters girls´and womens´self-views and well-being

Question 11

self-objectification

Answer 11

girls and women learn to internalize an objectifying observers perspective on their own body.
* objectification theory claims that self-objectification causes a range of psychological and emotional reactions