Jody is a 21-year-old college student who is obsessed with her body weight. She feels that
she is too heavy, even though she weighs only 100 pounds (she is 5'1" tall).
She will
sometimes go for several days without eating food but will drink large amounts of diet
soda. Occasionally she will go on an eating rampage, consuming large quantities of food,
only to relieve herself using laxatives. These symptoms suggest that Jody is most likely
suffering from
a. obesity.
b. anorexia nervosa.
c. bulimia nervosa.
d. diabetes.
e. metabolic insufficiency.
c. bulimia nervosa.
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a. Martin Luther c. Tycho Brahe b. Erasmus d. Johannes Kepler
The tendency to seek pleasure and avoid pain is called
(a) homeostasis (b) hypergamy (c) hedonism (d) habituation
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A) spatial; nonverbal B) nonverbal; verbal C) verbal; spatial D) short-term; long-term