Bill Houston will eat large quantities of food in a relatively short period of time and tells
his social worker that he’s “out of control” when eating. After binging, Bill makes
himself vomit to rid his body of the food. He binges and purges about two to three times
a month and has been doing so for the last seven or eight months. He admits that his selfesteem
is strongly linked to his physical appearance. The most likely diagnosis to
consider for Bill’s pattern of eating is:
a) Binge eating disorder (BED)
b) Bulimia nervosa, in partial remission
c) Other specified feeding or eating disorder
d) Avoidant/restrictive food intake disor
c)
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operations on the numbers is:
a. nominal. b. ordinal. c. interval. d. all of the answers are levels of measurement that will allow researchers to perform common arithmetic operations on the numbers
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A. True B. False