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PSYC 510- Chapters 11-15 Exam Questions and Correct Answers Latest Update 2024 (Already Passed) Drive for Thinness - Answers a key motivational variable that underlies dieting and body image, among young females in particular, whereby the individual believes that losing more weight is the answer t...

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PSYC 510- Chapters 11-15 Exam Questions and Correct Answers Latest Update 2024 (Already Passed)

Drive for Thinness - Answers a key motivational variable that underlies dieting and body image, among
young females in particular, whereby the individual believes that losing more weight is the answer to
overcoming her troubles and to achieving success

Disordered Eating Attitudes - Answers A person's belief that cultural standards for attractiveness, body
image, and social acceptance are closely tied to the ability to control one's diet and weight gain.

Purging - Answers The use of vomiting, laxatives, excessive exercise, restrictive dieting, enemas,
diuretics, or diet pills to compensate for food that has been eaten and that the person fears will produce
weight gain

Metabolic Rate - Answers Balance of energy expenditure; established based on individual genetic and
physiological makeup, as well as eating and exercise habits.

Set Point - Answers A comfortable range of body weight that the body tries to "defend" and maintain

Childhood obesity - Answers A chronic medical condition similar to hypertension or diabetes; it is
characterized by excessive body fat

Leptin - Answers Identified as a hormone that carries instructions to the brain to regulate energy and
appetite

Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder - Answers Characterized by avoidance or restriction of food
intake, leading to significant weight loss (or failure to maintain usual growth) and/or nutritional
deficiency

Failure to Thrive (FTT) - Answers a term used to descibe serious growth and nutritional problems in
infants, subsumed under avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder

Pica - Answers the ingestion of inedible substances such as hair, insects, or chips of paint; it primarily
affects very young children and those with intellectual disability

Anorexia Nervosa - Answers A severe eating disorder characterized by the refusal to maintain a
minimally normal body weight, an intense fear of gaining weight, and a significant disturbance in the
individual's perception and experiences of his or her own size.

Restricting Type - Answers A type of anorexia in which the individual uses dieting, fasting, or excessive
exercise to lose or avoid gaining weight.

Binge eating/purging type - Answers a type of anorexia whereby the individual regularly engages in
episodes of binge eating or purging or both

Bulimia Nervosa - Answers An eating disorder that involves recurrent episodes of binge eating, followed
by an effort to compensate by self-induced vomiting or other means of purging. Unduly influenced by
body shape and weight and are obsessed with food.

, Binge - Answers Episode of overeating that involves both excessive amounts of food and a lack of
control

Compensatory Behaviors - Answers In eating disorders, those behaviors intended to avoid gaining
weight from ingesting food. Examples are purging, forced vomiting, use of laxatives, or excessive
exercising.

Binge Eating Disorder - Answers A disorder that involves periods of excessive eating with a feeling of a
loss of control. It is similar to binge eating but without the compensatory behaviors and has become
increasingly widespread during this age of abundant fast food and obesity.

Dyssomnias - Answers Disorders of initiating or maintaining sleep, characterized by difficulty getting
enough sleep, not sleeping when you want to, or not feeling refreshed after sleeping. Involve disruptions
in the sleep process.

Parasomnias - Answers Sleep disorders in which behavioral or physiological events intrude on ongoing
sleep. Involve physiological or cognitive arousal at inappropriate times during the sleep-wake cycle,
which can result in sleep-walking or in nightmares that jolt someone from sleep.

Nightmares - Answers repeated awakenings with frightening dreams that you usually remember

sleep terrors - Answers abrupt awakening, accompanied by automatic arousal but no recall

sleepwalking - Answers getting out of bed and walking around, but with no recall the next day

Insomnia Disorder - Answers Difficulty initiating or maintaining sleep, or sleep that is not restorative; in
infants, repetitive night waking and inability to fall asleep

Hypersomnolence Disorder - Answers Excessive sleepiness that is displayed as either prolonged sleep
episodes or daytime sleep episodes

Narcolepsy - Answers Irresistible attacks of refreshing sleep occurring daily, accompanied by brief
episodes of loss of muscle tone (cataplexy)

Breathing-Related Sleep Disorder - Answers Sleep disruption leading to excessive sleepiness or insomnia
that is caused by sleep-related breathing difficulties

Circadian Rhythm Sleep - Answers Persistent or recurrent sleep disruption leading to excessive
sleepiness or insomnia due to a mismatch between the sleep-wake schedule required by a person's
environment and their internal sleep cycle.

Enuresis - Answers The involuntary discharge of urine during the day or night

Encopresis - Answers The passage of feces in inappropriate places, such as in clothing or on the floor

Chronic illness - Answers One that persists longer than 3 months in a given year or that requires a period
of continuous hospitalization of more than 1 month.

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