What treatment strategies are effective in the treatment of eating disorders?
What will be an ideal response?
Individuals with eating disorders tend to suffer from low self-esteem, depression, and perceived lack of control. Initial treatment for anorexia focuses on weight gain (by feeding tube, contingent reinforcement for weight gain, or both). Cognitive behavioral and family therapy sessions are common after weight gain, but relapse and continued obsession with weight are common. Bulimia has been somewhat successfully treated with psychotherapy, cognitive-behavioral therapy, and antidepressant medications; the most successful has been a combination of cognitive-behavioral therapy and use of antidepressant medications. Binge-eating disorder is most commonly treated with cognitive behavior therapy, although it has been more successful in eliminating the binging than in reducing weight.
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What are the three main categories of goal orientation? Describe each and give an example.
What will be an ideal response?
The cocktail party effect is
a. the ability to pay attention to one stimulus while filtering out other stimuli. b. the inability to pay attention to one stimulus in the presence of competing stimuli. c. the diminished awareness of information in a crowd. d. the equal division of attention between competing stimuli.
A negative correlation means that as one variable increases the other
a. increases. b. decreases. c. remains constant. d. increases then decreases.
LaMonte had trouble concentrating in class today. His roommate noticed that LaMonte's hands are trembling; his speech is slurred; and he is having trouble even naming common objects. LaMonte is most likely suffering from
a. sleep loss. b. somnambulism. c. lucid dreaming. d. narcolepsy.