PSYC 2280 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Eating Disorder, Binge Eating, Twin
1 Mar 2016
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Different patterns of physical development (girls gain weight in fat tissue, while men gain weight usually in muscle) Cultural influences (western expectations and media: men-tall and muscular, women-thin and pre- pubertal) Sociocultural factors: amount of exposure, media representation of eating disorder symptoms, how much a person buys into these ideas, social networks, family influences (mother"s perfectionism or weight/shape concerns), dieting (risk for both eating disorder and obesity), and bingeing. Cottone"s rats: test of rats: half were made to be hooked on junk food, when junk food was taken away they had withdrawal symptoms, started eating more regular pellets than control group. Steiger"s diaries (2005): found that food restriction came up in diaries, but it did not look like they were immediately preceding binge episodes, but if they were dieting, they were more at risk to stress eating when under stress.
