Explanations of Anorexia
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- Explanations of Anorexia
- Psychodynamic
- Unconscious desire to hold off puberty
- Unconsious fear of growing up sexually
- Anorexia represents a fear of sexual relationships and maturity.
- By not eating your body remains childlike so you are not sexually desired by others
- Remain in this child state you have no sexually worries
- defence mechanism of regression can be used to help explain this.
- Remain in this child state you have no sexually worries
- By not eating your body remains childlike so you are not sexually desired by others
- Anorexia represents a fear of sexual relationships and maturity.
- Learning
- Operant Conditioning
- Reinforcement of loosing weigh from others
- Positive reinforcement(compliment) and negative reinforcement(avoiding bullying)
- Associate the reward with the behaviour or punishment so you repeat or avoid it.
- Avoid food brings attention. Not eating it brings a reward and so fasting is reinforced
- Associate the reward with the behaviour or punishment so you repeat or avoid it.
- Positive reinforcement(compliment) and negative reinforcement(avoiding bullying)
- Reinforcement of loosing weigh from others
- Classical Conditioning
- Indiivdual decides to loose weight
- Gain rewards from compliments
- Due to rewards they fear gaining weight
- This fear is paired with eating and classical conditioned response occurs
- The next time they go to eat they feel anxious and to stop that feeling they do not eat
- This fear is paired with eating and classical conditioned response occurs
- Due to rewards they fear gaining weight
- Gain rewards from compliments
- Indiivdual decides to loose weight
- Social Learning Theory
- Observation of slim role models in media (vicarious reinforcement
- Imitate role model to obtain same reinforcers or avoid punishments
- Learn behaviour is successful = being slim and so imitate this
- role models- same sex, higher status and older
- ARRM
- role models- same sex, higher status and older
- Learn behaviour is successful = being slim and so imitate this
- Imitate role model to obtain same reinforcers or avoid punishments
- Observation of slim role models in media (vicarious reinforcement
- Operant Conditioning
- Psychodynamic
- Unconsious fear of growing up sexually
- Anorexia represents a fear of sexual relationships and maturity.
- By not eating your body remains childlike so you are not sexually desired by others
- Remain in this child state you have no sexually worries
- defence mechanism of regression can be used to help explain this.
- Remain in this child state you have no sexually worries
- By not eating your body remains childlike so you are not sexually desired by others
- Anorexia represents a fear of sexual relationships and maturity.
- Hilda Bruch 1975- found mothers of anorexics had trouble anticipating hunger so the child never went hungry
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