Exam 13: Eating Disorders and Related Conditions

Eating disorders are the _______ most common illness in adolescent females.

Most commonly,individuals with anorexia:

Which of the following characteristics is least likely to characterize teens who develop eating problems (Graber et al. ,1994)?

Which of the following disorders is least likely to co-occur with eating disorders?

The neurotransmitter that has been most focused on as a possible cause of eating disorders is:

The most common compensatory behavior among community samples of individuals who fit the criteria for bulimia (but who have not sought help)is:

Obesity __________ is strongly related to obesity in __________.

The relationship between preadolescent obesity and the later emergence of eating disorders is likely due to:

Which of the following effects is least likely to occur when an individual is malnourished?

Hilda Bruch,a pioneer investigator of psychological processes involved in eating disorders,proposed that the self-starvation of individuals with anorexia was:

Scientists have found biochemical similarities between people with eating disorders and those with:

Unlike most of the disorders of childhood and adolescence,the causes of eating disorders are disproportionately related to ___________ influences.

Pica in the first and second years of life among otherwise normally developing infants and toddlers is likely due to:

The onset of bulimia:

Which of the following statements relating to bulimia is true?

__________ has/have been identified as a specific risk factor for an infant's eating or feeding disorder.

A protein that plays a major role in some genetic cases of obesity is called:

A large-scale survey of students in grades 5 through 8 found that approximately ___ had tried to lose weight in the past 7 days.

Bulimia is divided into two subtypes:

This disorder has become increasingly widespread during this age of abundant fast food and obesity.