Exam 8: Obesity and Disordered Eating

In 1978, the province of Quebec in Canada banned fast-food advertising to children in television and print. With respect to obesity, this is an example of ______ prevention.

Bollinger and colleagues (2011) found that posting calorie and nutritional information at Starbucks caused customers to ______.

Nichter and Nichter (1991) found that among adolescent girls, the "ideal girl" has a BMI of ______, which is considered ______.

Medication is effective as a stand-alone treatment for binge eating disorder.

Latrisha lives in a lower SES African-American neighborhood in a mid-sized city in the Southeast United States. The nearest grocery store is 2 miles away and is not served by public transit. The convenience stores in her neighborhood sell only alcohol, cigarettes, soda, and high-sodium or high-sugar snack foods. Latrisha lives in a ______.

About 98% of the televised food advertisements seen by children between 2 and 11 years old are products high in fat, sugar, or sodium.

Imagine that your team is developing a program aimed at preventing eating disorders on a college campus. Describe the content you would include in the program, as well as content you would avoid. Make explicit reference to cognitive dissonance in your response. Finally, describe how you might distribute the program's content among online and in-person modes of delivery.

Data from a sample of high-school girls (Halpern and colleagues, 1999) suggests the hypothesis that the likelihood that a girl is dating is ______ correlated with BMI.

Deena's psychiatrist has asked her to monitor and record her thoughts and feelings related to bingeing and purging. In addition, she is completing a project reflecting her responses to the images of women she encounters in her social media use. Finally, Deena's psychiatrist has prescribed Prozac, an antidepressant. Deena is MOST likely completing a course of ______ therapy.

A health psychologist might expect a ______ correlation between hours of sleep each night and next-day calorie consumption.

With respect to eating disorders, ______ minus compensatory behaviors equals ______.

An 18-year-old woman is seeking treatment for bulimia nervosa. She and her family are considering cognitive-behavioral therapy, family therapy, and supportive-expressive therapy. Of these approaches, ______ therapy is probably the MOST effective, and ______ therapy is probably the LEAST effective.

Genetic factors may predict as much as ______ of the variation among people in BMI.

If a same-sex friend becomes obese, one is subsequently much more likely to become obese oneself.

The eating disorder ______ has the highest mortality rate of all psychological disorders. About ______ of those diagnosed with the disorder ultimately die from it.

Compared to the likelihood of a person of normal weight dying in a given time period, the mortality rate for people with a BMI over 40 is ______.

One of the most serious shortcomings of the internal-external hypothesis is that it ______ the sensitivity of ______ people to internal cues for eating.

Of those with bulimia nervosa, ______ have had thoughts of suicide.

______ therapy is NOT mentioned in the textbook as one of the contemporary therapeutic approaches to treating disordered eating.

At any given time, one in ______ Americans is dieting.