What is the paradox of eating disorders?

a. Anorexia is more likely to occur in countries where malnutrition is prevalent.
b. The increasing emphasis on thinness in the United States is occurring as the population is becoming heavier.
c. As the popularity of healthy clubs is increasing in the United States, eating disorders are becoming more prevalent.
d. In the past decade, male prevalence rates of obesity have come to surpass female rates of obesity.


B

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Comfort food __________.

A. does nothing physiologically; any effects are due to expectation B. may help reduce activation in the stress response system C. changes the hormonal balance of the body and makes people want to eat more D. affects the brain in such a way as to make it unable to tell when the body is full

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We use _________________ when the right thing to do is not clear.

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

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The part of a neuron that contains the nucleus and keeps the entire cell alive and functioning is the ________

a) axon b) cell membrane c) dendrite d) soma

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Using the "How do I feel about it?" heuristic can be problematic because we can make mistakes about what is causing our feelings. This idea is related to which other ideas in social psychology?

a. schematic processing; fundamental attribution error b. misattribution; reasons-generated attitude change c. biased scanning; self-fulfilling prophecy d. self-serving biases; dissonance reduction

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