The disorder that is characterized by eating binges followed by forced vomiting is called: |
D. bulimia nervosa |
A person who eats large amounts of food in a short period, and does this repeatedly, with no other symptoms, would be said to have: |
A. a binge-eating disorder |
Characteristics of anorexia nervosa include all the following EXCEPT: |
C/ a view that one is currently unattractively thin |
Which of the following would be MOST likely to cut out sweets, then eliminate more and more types of foods, but not engage in force vomiting? |
A. someone experiencing restricting-type anorexia nervosa |
Recent research on body dissatisfaction among college students suggests which of the following? |
C. men who are overweight & underweight are more dissatisfied than those who are of medium weight |
A young woman has become very afraid of being overweight. She has recently reduced her food intake, although she feels hungry all the time. As a result, her weight has dropped sharply below average, but she still believes that she is overweight. She is MOST likely experiencing: |
B. anorexia nervosa |
A person who stopped eating candy and other sweets, then gradually eliminated other foods until he or she was eating almost nothing could be experiencing: |
C. restricted-type anorexia |
What is the first type of food usually eliminated from the diet of the developing restricting- type anorexic person? |
B. sweets |
A person who loses weight by forcing herself to vomit after meals or by using laxatives, and who otherwise fits the definition of anorexia is experiencing: |
A. binge-eating/purging anorexia nervosa |
Which of the following is NOT true about anorexia nervosa? |
D. about 25 percent of people who experience anorexia are men |
Which of the following statements BEST reflects the relationship between gender and eating disorders? |
C. most cases of eating disorders occur in femals |
The peak age range for the development of anorexia nervosa is: |
C. 14 to 18 |
What is the MOST common outcome for individuals with anorexia nervosa? |
A. recovery |
Although most victims recover from eating disorders, between ______ and ______ of them become so seriously ill that they die from medical problems or from suicide. |
B. 6 %; 10% |
If a person says, "I must be perfect in every way. I’ll be a better person if I deprive myself of food," that person is engaging in: |
A. distorted thinking |
The PRIMARY motivating emotion a person with anorexia experiences is: |
A. fear |
The preoccupation with food characteristic of anorexia nervosa is thought to: |
A. result from starvation |
In the 1940s, a group of volunteers was put on a semistarvation diet for 6 months. During the latter part of the study: |
B. the volunteers thought about food all the time |
A modern explanation of why many anorexic people continually have food-related thoughts and dreams is that: |
D. such thoughts & dreams are the result of food deprivation |
The MOST common cognitive disturbance in anorexia nervosa is: |
A. a distorted body image |
People suffering from anorexia nervosa tend to: |
A. overestimate their body size |
Which of these characteristics is MOST consistent with anorexia nervosa? |
C. body size overestimation |
Which of the following would be LEAST likely to characterize the behavior of someone experiencing anorexia nervosa? |
D. hesitancy to think & talk about food |
Nonanorexic people who are placed on a starvation diet: |
C. shown many of the food preoccupations of anorexia nervosa |
If you were looking at a photograph of yourself and adjusting the size until you thought the picture looked like you, you would MOST likely be participating in an assessment of your: |
A. accuracy is estimating body size |
Anorexic individuals often show which of the following personality characteristics? |
A. obsessions |
Of the following, the psychological disorder that anorexia nervosa MOST resembles is: |
D. obsessive-compulsive disorder |
Which of the following psychological problems is LEAST likely to be associated with anorexia nervosa? |
C. schizophrenia |
If a friend were experiencing anorexia nervosa, you wouldn’t be surprised to find that the friend was also experiencing all of the following EXCEPT: |
B. a personality disorder |
A patient in therapy who eats exactly eight pieces of bread that he or she has carefully made into balls of equal diameter is displaying a symptom of anorexia nervosa related to: |
C. obsessive-compulsive disorder |
The popular star whose death raised awareness of eating disorders was: |
C. Karen Carpenter |
Which of the following medical problems associated with anorexia is MOST likely to lead to death? |
D. metabolic & electrolyte changes |
Consequences of anorexia nervosa include all of the following EXCEPT: |
C. fever & high blood pressure |
Which of the following problems is common in anorexia nervosa? |
A. amenorrhea |
Which of the following problems is a possible medical complication of anorexia nervosa? |
B. decreased heart rate |
If an anorexic woman has lanugo, what has happened? |
D. she has grown fine silky hair on her body |
Misusing diuretics and laxatives following a binge is a symptom of the ______ of bulimia nervosa. |
D. purging-type |
Someone who fasts or exercises strenuously following a binge is engaging in: |
A. compensatory behaviors |
Bulimia is always characterized by: |
A. uncontrollable eating |
All of the following are compensatory behaviors for someone with bulimia EXCEPT: |
B. preoccupation with food |
The central feature of bulimia nervosa is: |
D. binge eating followed by a compensatory behavior |
The MOST accurate diagnosis for a woman who regularly eats a whole pizza, a carton of ice cream, and a box of donuts at one sitting, then forces herself to throw it all up is: |
B. purging-type bulimia nervosa |
A woman eats cookies, cake, ice cream, and almost anything else that is sweet. At some point during the binge, she takes a huge dose of a laxative to "empty out" the food. Her taking the laxative, and the assumption underlying why she does it, would lead to a diagnosis of: |
B. purging-type bulimia nervosa |
Which of the following is a diagnostic criterion for bulimia nervosa? |
C. lack of control over eating during binging |
A woman eats chips and dips, burgers and fries, and drinks a couple of shakes. Afterward, she goes to the gym and does 90 minutes of aerobics, spends an hour on the stairstepper, and then does weights for another hour. She also does not eat for 72 hours. The set of assumptions underlying her behavior would lead to a diagnosis of: |
C. nonpurging-type bulimia nervosa |
If binge eating is followed by a period of strenuous exercise to compensate for the food, the diagnosis is probably: |
C. nonpurging-type bulimia nervosa |
To qualify for a diagnosis of bulimia nervosa, what must be TRUE of the compensatory behaviors displayed? |
A. they must occur |
Compared to people with anorexia nervosa, MOST people with bulimia: |
C. are of normal weight |
Which of the following statements is true? |
D. people with bulimia nervosa run the risk of becoming both anorexic & obese |
People who are often overweight and regularly binge eat without compensatory behaviors are experiencing: |
C. binge-eating disorder |
Many teenagers go on occasional eating binges. Which of the following is TRUE about this behavior? |
C. most people who engage in the behavior are not bulimic |
If a friend of yours had bulimia nervosa and engaged in frequent binges, about how many of his or her binges per week would you expect to witness yourself? |
B. none |
What appears to be the KEY factor in determining the types of food that are likely to be eaten in a binge? |
C. rapidity through soft texture |
Regarding emotions, the pattern common in bulimia from prebinge, through binge, to postbinge is BEST described in sequence as: |
C. tension, powerlessness, shame |
For people with bulimia nervosa, binge episodes produce feelings of: |
D. guilt & depression |
People who binge: |
B. feel powerful before the binge |
Vomiting as a compensatory behavior for those experiencing bulimia: |
B. ironically, leads to greater hunger & frequent binges |
Which of the following behaviors BEST describes the effects of compensatory behaviors bulimics use in controlling weight? |
B. repeated vomiting affects one’s ability to feel satiated |
Following a very-low-calorie weight-loss program, participants would be at MOST risk for: |
A. bingeing |
Immediately preceding the onset of an eating disorder, one would MOST likely find that the woman: |
D. had been successful in losing weight & had been praised by family |
Similarities between bulimia and anorexia include: |
A. both tend to begin after a period of dieting among people afraid of becoming obese |
Where would one be MOST likely to see the sentence, "Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels"? |
C. on a pro-annorexia web site |
A young woman who is very concerned about being attractive to others, is more sexually experienced, and has relatively few obsessive qualities is: |
B. more likely to be experiencing bulimia than anorexia |
Someone who is experiencing bulimia is MORE likely to _____ than someone experiencing anorexia. |
C. display characteristics of a personality diosrder |
The medical problem that is twice as frequent in anorexic women as it is in bulimic women is: |
B. amenorrhea |
Which one of the following is a medical condition MORE common in bulimia than anorexia? |
B. dental problems |
"Biggest Loser" contestants, if they are like the majority of obese people, are MOST likely: |
B. to not display binge eating disorder |
In which of the following disorders would you expect nearly equal numbers of men and women? |
B. binge eating disorder |
How does binge eating disorder differ from bulimia nervosa and anorexia nervosa? |
B. there is less gender difference in the incidence rates |
The currently accepted view of eating disorders is that its cause is: |
D. multidimensional |
If a therapist thought that eating disorders were BEST explained by an interaction of sociocultural, psychological, and biological factors, that therapist would be taking a(an): |
C. cognitive-behavioral perspective |
According to Hilde Bruch, which of the following characterizes ineffective parents whose children are prone to eating disorders? |
C. they feed anxious children & comfort tired ones |
What underlies Hilde Bruch’s ego deficiency view of children with eating disorders is a sense of: |
A. lack of control over their lives & a misperception of internal cues |
What does Hilde Bruch believe ineffective parents do that puts their children at risk for eating disorders? |
B. incorrectly interpret their children’s needs |
Parents who feed their children when they are anxious and comfort them when they are tired rather than giving them a nap, run the risk of producing children who: |
A. can’t assess their own needs |
People with alexithymia are NOT able to: |
C. put descriptive labels on what they are feeling |
Compared to a person who is happy and self-confident, a person who is bored and depressed: |
D. is more likely to eat junk food |
Which of the following is the BEST example of alexithymia? |
B. an inability to describe one’s feelings accurately |
"I have this vague sense that something isn’t right, but I just can’t describe it," is a statement MOST likely said by someone experiencing: |
C. alexithymia |
People are MOST likely to eat junk food when they are experiencing: |
D. boredom |
In general, which of the following statements about feelings that trigger eating is TRUE? |
C. positive emotions are less likely than negative emotions to trigger the eating of junk food |
According to cognitive theorists, the underlying distortion in eating disorders is related to: |
C. too much concern with eating, shape, & weight |
If we find that many people with eating disorders also have symptoms of depression, we know that: |
D. eating disorders & depression are somehow related |
Support for the idea that mood disorders set the stage for eating disorders comes from evidence that shows: |
C. that close relatives of people with eating disorders have a high rate of mood disorders |
The levels of ______ are low in many people with depression and those with eating disorders. |
B. serotonin |
Compared to the general public, people with eating disorders are MORE likely to: |
A. be depressed |
"Depression and eating disorders are correlated." What does this statement mean? |
D. people with eating disorders also tend to be depressed |
The concordance rate for anorexia nervosa in identical twins is 70 percent. This means that: |
D. if your identical twin has anorexia, your chances of having it are 70 percent |
In which of the following cases are you MOST likely to develop an eating disorder? |
C. if you have an identical twin with anorexia nervosa |
Serotonin levels are low in those with eating disorders and in those with obsessive- compulsive disorder and depression. This means that: |
C. there is a relationship, but no evidence of causation |
The part of the brain MOST closely associated with the control of eating and body weight is the: |
C. hypothalamus |
When an experimenter stimulates a rat’s lateral hypothalamus, the MOST likely result is: |
A. hunger |
If you are overweight, the development of which of the following is MOST likely to appeal to you? |
D. a way to safely increase GLP-1 in humans |
According to recent research, which of the following is the LEAST likely reason a person becomes obese? |
D. lack of willpower |
Which of the following is NOT true about obesity? |
A. it is a mental disorder |
If you are mildly to moderately obese, you can legitimately conclude that: |
A. you should be left alone, or encouraged to set only realistic weight-loss goals |
Based on current research, all of the following individuals have a higher risk of dying early EXCEPT: |
D. normal-weight people |
People who diet to lose weight usually: |
A. gain the weight back |
In order to change the high rates of obesity among U.S. children and adolescents, which of the following should be addressed? |
A. rates of exercise & dietary habits |
GLP-1: |
D. suppresses appetite |
Which of the following is the MOST accurate biological explanation for people who gain weight after losing it? |
C. the brain is trying to restore the person to a set weight point |
According to weight set point theory, the consequences of dieting below one’s weight set point are: |
C. there is an increase of hunger |
The "weight set point" is: |
C. the body’s natural weight |
Why does the author of your textbook describe dieters who have fallen to a weight below their set point as being engaged in a "battle against themselves"? |
C. their brains are making them feel hungry, an impulse hard to resist |
Based on past results, one would predict that women who win the Miss America Pageant in the future will: |
C. be smaller than those who lose |
If one found that the average weight and size of cheerleaders had declined significantly over the years, and that those who aspired to be cheerleaders had a high level of eating disorders, that would be evidence for a ______ cause of eating disorders. |
A. societal |
Which professions put one MOST at risk for an eating disorder? |
C. actors & certain athletes |
Which of the following is MOST at risk for an eating disorder? |
D. a gymnast |
If you are an overweight female teenager with an eating disorder, you are MORE likely than your peers to do all of the following EXCEPT spend more time: |
A. playing video games |
In one study, prospective parents rated a picture of a chubby child as ______ than a less average-weight child. |
A. friendly & intelligent |
Research on doll choice in preschoolers shows that: |
B. children choose the thin doll rather than the chubby doll but don’t know why |
Almost two-thirds of women athletes engage in self-destructive ways of controlling their weight. Which of the following is MOST common? |
D. taking diet pills |
A recent study showed a positive correlation between the time spent on Facebook and the likelihood of experiencing an eating disorder among adolescent girls. This result showed that: |
D. exposure to media might be related to an increase in eating disorders |
Family members are overinvolved in each other’s lives, but are affectionate and loyal. This description fits Salvador Minuchin’s definition of an: |
C. enmeshed family pattern |
Salvador Minuchin describes a family system in which members are overly involved in each other’s affairs as a(n): |
B. enmeshed family pattern |
The push for independence threatens the enmeshed family pattern when: |
C. the child takes on a sick role to allow the family to live in harmony |
Which of the following conclusions about family patterns and eating disorders is MOST supported by systematic research? |
D. families of those with bulimia nervosa & anorexia nervosa vary widely |
Current research on eating disorders is MOST consistent with which of the following statements? |
D. the rates of eating disorders are increasing in minority women – approaching rates found in white American women |
If current trends concerning the body images of African American women and white American women continue, we would expect in the future that: |
D. African American women would show increasing body image dissatisfaction |
Changes in body image among African American women and among women in non-Westernized cultures support the idea that ______ has/have a strong influence on body image. |
C. exposure to white U.S. culture |
That eating disorders are rising among nonwhite Americans to levels approaching the rates for white Americans is MOST likely due to: |
D. acculturation |
A study of college men showed that they describe the ideal male as ______ and the ideal female as ______. |
C. muscular; thin |
What is the MOST likely explanation for the different explanations of eating disorders in men and women? |
D. male eating disorders are more likely to be tied to work or sports |
Which of the following would be MOST likely to lead to a diagnosis of muscle dysmorphobia? |
D. a man who is muscular but does not see himself as being muscular & so continues to strive for a perfect body |
Of the following, the MOST appropriate diagnosis for a man who is strong and fit but does not see himself that way is: |
A. muscle dysmorphobia |
A man with muscle dysmorphobia is MOST likely to: |
D. feel that he is scrawny despite the fact that he is not |
The first step in treating anorexia nervosa is to: |
D. help the person start to regain the lost weight |
The major disadvantage of using forced tube-feeding for patients with eating disorders who refuse to eat is that the patients: |
D. may become distrustful of the therapist & uncooperative with further treatment |
A person who was receiving the best and most current treatment for an eating disorder would receive treatment designed to: |
D. deal first with changing the eating habit, then with what caused them |
The treatment that has been the MOST popular for restoring weight among anorexic persons is: |
D. supportive nursing care & a high-caloric diet |
Anorectic patients receive a gradually increasing diet over the course of several weeks, encouragement, education, and reassurance that they will not become obese. The form of therapy they are receiving is: |
C. supportive nursing care |
All treatments for anorexia nervosa share the long-term common goal of: |
B. addressing the underlying causes of disorders |
Lasting improvement for one with anorexia nervosa depends on: |
C. addressing underlying psychological problems |
The MOST realistic statement a person with anorexia would make following cognitive treatment is: |
A. "I expect to feel fat because of my illness" |
An example of a disturbed cognition that might be present in one being treated for anorexia is the statement: |
B. "My weight & shape determine my value" |
An anorectic patient who says, "I know that a key feature of anorexia nervosa is a misperception of my own size, so I can expect to feel fat regardless of my actual size," has most likely received which of the following? |
C. cognitive-behavioral therapy |
Research on the aftermath of anorexia nervosa shows that: |
D. the death rate from anorexia appears to be declining |
Which of the following is TRUE about recovery from anorexia? |
B. anorectic behavior recurs in about one-third of recovered patients |
What is a likely long-term consequence of anorexia? |
C. continuing concern about weight & appearance |
For which of the following individuals is recovery from anorexia MOST likely? |
A. someone who is a teenager rather than a young adult |
All the treatment methods for bulimia nervosa share the immediate goal of: |
C. assisting patients to eliminate their binge-purging patterns |
The use of a food diary to keep track of eating behavior in the treatment of bulimic patients is MOST likely to be used by a therapist from the: |
C. behavioral perspective |
Tanya is a behavioral therapist who exposes bulimic patients to situations that usually cause binge episodes and then prevents them from binge eating. The technique that she is using is called: |
D. exposure & response prevention |
A therapist who sat with the bulimic patient while the patient ate appropriate quantities of "forbidden" foods, and then stayed until the patient no longer had the urge to purge would be practicing: |
A. exposure & response prevention |
One of the therapy methods commonly used to treat bulimia nervosa is: |
B. exposure & response therapy |
The medication MOST helpful in the treatment of bulimia is an: |
B. antidepressant drug |
Relapse for both bulimia and anorexia is MOST likely triggered by: |
B. life stresses |
Relapses of bulimia are MOST likely to occur following: |
B. life stresses |
A factor increasing the likelihood of a relapse of bulimia is: |
D. development of a pattern of frequent vomiting |
One difference between the eating disorders and other disorders is: |
A. the recovered person often misses his or her symptoms |
Abnormal Psych – Chapter 11
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