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Solutions For Abnormal Psychology Chapter 7 Problem 10TY

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Solution 1

Infants are usually picky eaters and eat only some specified type of foods. This is not a problem but there are some other disordered eating in children called the pica and rumination.

Children and infants like some foods that are not nutritious and are non-food substance. They like those and always tend to have them. Some of the non-food items are clay, chalk etc. This condition is pica.

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Hence the option a is not correct.

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Rumination disorder as the name indicates it is characterized by the regurgitation of the recently eaten food into the mouth.

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Hence the option b is not correct.

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Avoidant-restrictive food intake disorder is a newly introduced children eating disorder in this the children exhibit restriction of taking food or takes inadequate food.

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Hence the option d is not correct.

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Eating disorder is a serious issue that is mostly linked with the psychological changes. This is caused due to stress, extreme concern about the body shape and size by social abuses, genetic factors.

Examples: Anorexia nervosa, binge eating, bulimia nervosa.

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In some individuals there will be n diagnostic criteria for all these three disorders and they belong to Other Specified Feeding and Eating Disorder (OSFED). It lists five types of categories

• Atypical anorexia nervosa

• Low frequency bulimia nervosa

• Low frequency binge eating

• Purging disorder

• Night eating syndrome

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Hence the correct option is .