Psychological explanations for Anorexia
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- Psychological explanations for Anorexia
- Behavioural approach
- Eating disorder starts through SLT - Acquisition and maintenence. See a role model and copy the behaviour.
- Nasser et al - compared 50 egyptian women at uni in london with 60 egyptian women at uni in Cairo. 12% of london group got anorexia and none of cairo group did.
- :) - high media in londo, western, may explain why but only correlational. X- may be due to others like stress of moving X - reductionist suggests it can be unconditioned but cant that easy. Leads to COGNITIVE
- Nasser et al - compared 50 egyptian women at uni in london with 60 egyptian women at uni in Cairo. 12% of london group got anorexia and none of cairo group did.
- Eating disorder starts through SLT - Acquisition and maintenence. See a role model and copy the behaviour.
- Cognitive Approach
- Cognitive explanation may explain why it becomes difficult to uncondition. The anorexia may start to cause distorted thinking and perception
- Orimoto - found that anorexics believe they must continually lose weight to be in control :) - Face validity
- Halmi et al - tested 322 anorexics - as levels of perfectionism increased so did severity of anorexia.
- Explanation alone dont know what casued the distorted thinking but when linked with SLT = holistic
- Cognitive explanation may explain why it becomes difficult to uncondition. The anorexia may start to cause distorted thinking and perception
- Gender bias doen not exist - explains both. Suggests why it usually develops in teen years - most influential.
- Understanding this can have RWA - stop anorexia before the distorted thinking. Give warning signs to parents. change media influence.
- Behavioural approach
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