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Learning Theories Key Issue
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- 1What is the Key Question in the Learning Theories approach?Is the influence of role models something that can cause bulimia?
- 2What is bulimia?Bulimia nervosa is an eating disorder and mental health condition
- 3What do people who have bulimia do?try to control their weight by severely restricting the amount of food they eat, then binge eating and purging the food from their body by making themselves vomit or using laxatives
- 4What are the symptoms of bulimia?Anxiety, excessive fear of becoming fat.
Obsessive attitude towards food.
Overcritical attitude to their weight and shape.
Frequent visits to the bathroom after eating, after which the person might appear flushed and have scarred knuckles. - 5Which gender is more likely to develop bulimia?women
- 6How many Brits are estimated to suffer from some form of eating disorder?1.6 million
- 7What percentage are estimated to be male?25%
- 8What percentage of women are thought to have bulimia at some stage in their life?8%
- 9Between what ages does Bulimia normally affect people?16-40
- 10What does western culture glorify?thinness - promotes a low weight sculptured ideal body
- 11What does the media also promote?foods high in fat and calories - compelling pressures to consume these products
- 12What is the result of this?people are getting heavier, and the gap between the ideal and normal body weight is giving rise to anxiety
- 13What do people do to reduce this anxiety?reduce body weight - by going on a diet
- 14What can a diet cause?rebound binge eating and more attempts to deal with it by further dieting/ purging
- 15How does the media create a cultural paradox?promote thin sculptured body as being the ideal body shape but they also promote foods high in fat and calories (models that promote the foods are often slim too)
- 16What else is causing an increase in eating disorders?ideal body size as promoted by celebrities is getting thinner - due to increase in calorific foods, people are getting bigger, therefore the gap between actual body sizes and the cultural ideal is getting wider - giving rise to anxiety in women
- 17How can the acquisition of eating disorders be explained by operant conditioning?not eating can result in attention, this attention is positive reinforcement for the individual. The fasting behaviour is reinforced
- 18How can the acquisition of eating disorders be explained by classical conditioning?If people are successful in losing weight, they get an intrinsic reward. They then become scared they will put the weight back on, therefore the fear of weight is paired with eating and a classically conditioned anxiety response develops. Next time they have food they feel anxious and to reduce this anxiety, they purge.
- 19How can the acquisition of eating disorders be explained by social learning theory?Pay attention to thin celebrity role models and also to the promotion of fast food.
Retain this information.
Have the ability to reproduce the body image by dieting and the ability to eat fast foods. Can lead to a binge-purge cycle.
Their role models are rich and famous - motivation
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- A level Psychology (4 Learning Theories) Karteikarten am Learning Theories Key Issue, erstellt von Ella Middlemiss am 13/04/2017.
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