Psychology Eating Disorders Biological and Evolutionary Hypothesis

Biological explanations of eating disorders and evolutionary hypothesis

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1. What is the lateral hypothalamus?

  • Signal to brain telling you you're full
  • Feeding centre
  • A structural change or injury
  • Satiety centre
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2. What is food neophobia?

  • Fear of the new - not wanting to try new food
  • Afraid of food
  • Allergic to food
  • Sleeping with food

3. What does the hormone leptin do?

  • Opposite of hunger
  • Tells us we are full
  • Satiety centre
  • Signal to brain telling you you're full

4. What is ghrelin?

  • A hormone located in the stomach which makes you feel hungry
  • Hormone telling you you're full
  • Satiety centre
  • Feeding centre

5. Rats and humans eat

  • More tasty food and less when we are in company
  • More tastier food than less tasty food and we eat more when we are in company
  • Less tasty food and not as much in company
  • We don't eat

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