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Solutions For Abnormal Psychology Chapter 7 Problem 11TY

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Solution 1

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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Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder that is characterized by extreme weight loss due to restricting energy intake, fear of weight gain and obesity. In this the individuals refuse to eat food to look lean and have very low weight than the usual. There are two types of anorexia nervosa.

• In classical type they try to look thin by restricting the energy intake even they are hungry and by increasing the physical activity.

• In the second type they perform binge eating and purging.

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Hence the option d is not correct.

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Bulimia nervosa is an eating disorder that involves recurrent episodes of binge eating followed by some weight loss precautionary methods called compensatory behavior.

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Hence the option b and c are not correct.

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Binge eating is an eating disorder of recurrent overeating for a period of less than every two hours and is not followed by the compensatory behavior. They are not concerned about the calories or the type of food.

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Hence the correct option is .