Describe three important individual factors that contribute the development of eating disorders
What will be an ideal response?
• Temperament – negative emotionality and emotion dysregulation
• Impulsivity
• Perfectionism
• Sexual orientation
• Psychodynamic framework – lower levels of relatedness; atypical emotional development; problems in early relationships; neuroticism
• Higher body-mass index
• Participation in weight-focused sports
• Motivation underlying food choices and dieting
• Negative events or psychopathology
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a. among black Americans than white. b. when the person views homosexuality as controllable and a matter of choice. c. when the person views homosexuality as biological or genetic in origin. d. among whites regardless of culture.
Gustation refers to our sense of:
a. taste b. smell c. balance d. movement
Regarding the human sex drive, which of the following statements is FALSE?
a. In humans, the sex drive can be aroused at virtually any time by almost anything. b. The human sex drive is largely non-homeostatic. c. The strength of the sex drive is directly related to deprivation, or the amount of time since the drive was last satisfied. d. People may seek to arouse the sex drive as well as to reduce it.
Regarding the culture-bound syndromes and diagnostic classification, which of the following statements is FALSE?
a. Culture-bound syndromes provide little guidance about the true nature of a person's problems or the best way to treat them. b. Culture-bound disorders occur only in Eastern, Hispanic, and African cultures and not in Western cultures, such as the U.S. and Canada. c. The classification of the DSM-IV-TR is based on empirical data and clinical observations. d. The definitions of mental disorders in the DSM have changed over time with some mental disorders being deleted and new ones added.