Rank order obesity, anorexia nervosa, and bulimia nervosa based on the degree to which they are treatable and explain your reasoning.
What will be an ideal response?
Based on information in the text, obesity is probably more treatable than the other two conditions. Surgical intervention has been shown to be effective in reducing appetite, and people often lose weight and maintain that loss. There has been more success in treating bulimia than anorexia, partially due to an inability to find an effective pharmacological treatment.
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Research examining the long-term effects of media violence has demonstrated that
a. the more violence children watch on TV, the more aggressive they tend to be at home and school. b. the more violence children watch on TV, the less aggressive they tend to act at home and school. c. no consistent relationship exists between how much violence children watch on TV and aggressive behavior. d. watching violence on TV causes relatively nonaggressive children to become more aggressive but does not increase the level of aggression of relatively aggressive children.
David is very active politically and generally likes to be the leader of any group he joins. According to Holland's six personality factors, David is likely to fall on the ____ factor
a. realistic b. investigative c. social d. enterprising
Suppose that you are feeling a positive emotion such as "relief" (e.g., you thought your wallet had been stolen, but realized it wasn't) or "joy" (e.g., you just heard that your older sister had a baby). Would it be possible for that emotion to be converted into another emotion via excitation transfer?
a. No, once a full-blown emotion has "registered," it cannot be converted into another emotion. b. Yes, although typically (once a positive emotion has already been "registered") it could only be converted into another positive emotion. c. Yes, although typically (once a positive emotion has already been "registered") it could only be converted into a negative emotion. d. Yes, it could be converted into another positive emotion or (just as easily) into a negative emotion.
Older adults with elevated blood levels of __________ learned a maze __________ than did those with normal levels.
A. glucocorticoids; more slowly B. glucocorticoids; more quickly C. thyroxine; more slowly D. thyroxine; more quickly