munching on their sandwiches and eating their desserts. Then imagine yourself‚ afraid to eat food‚ afraid to take into your body the necessity of life. You are so afraid of eating food that you starve yourself daily‚ sticking to your own false impressions that your body is not in good shape. You have a fear every day‚ the fear of becoming fat. You have Anorexia Nervosa. What exactly is Anorexia Nervosa? It is an eating disorder characterized by bad eating habits‚ intense weight loss‚ and
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in chapter 5‚ explain what is meant by the term “conditioning” and describe and distinguish between classical and operant conditioning. Finally‚ discuss how research into the effects of biology and cognition on conditioning has changed psychology’s understanding of the conditioning process Classical Conditioning Conditioning is an associative learning‚ which occur when we make a connection or an association with two events. Classical conditioning is when two stimuli becomes associated with each
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Psychological explanations of one eating disorder. (8+16) Psychological explanations of obesity include the psychodynamic and the behaviourist approach. Behaviourism suggests three means by which obesity may occur; classical conditioning‚ operant conditioning and social learning theory. There is a great deal of evidence for the behavioural explanation. Classical conditioning is where eating becomes associated with other behaviours that are often routine‚ leading to eating when not hungry for example
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2. Discuss how Skinner’s principles of operant conditioning can be applied to personality development. Operant conditioning (the shaping of behavior through reward and punishment)is a form of learning in which voluntary responses come to be controlled by their consequences. It probably governments a larger share of human behaviour than classical conditioning. Since most human responses are voluntary rather than reflexive. The study of operant conditioning was led by B.F.Skinner. Skinner demonstrated
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Reaching Female College Athletes: Nutrition and Eating Disorders in Female College Athletes Stephanie J. Watson‚ B.S. Indiana State University Nutrition and Eating Disorders in Female College Athletes Athletes tend to be highly competitive‚ highly-achieving‚ and self-disciplined individuals (Mahan and Escott-Stump‚ 2000). Similar personality traits are seen in people with Anorexia Nervosa (AN). A lean body type is associated with enhanced strength and performance in many competitive
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have color blindness? The effect color blindness has on you is inability to distinguish colors. Most people who have this disorder are partially colorblind; being fully colorblind is very rare and does not happen a lot. Some of the major causes for color blindness is aging‚ eye problems‚ injury to the eye‚ and side effects to certain medicine. Some symptoms of the disorder are difficulty distinguishing colors‚ inability to see shades or tones of the same color‚ and rapid eye movement in rare cases
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Psychology wouldn’t be where it’s at today if it wasn’t for two important psychologists Edward L. Thorndike and behavioral psychologist B.F. Skinner. Operant conditioning was devised and studied by psychologist Edward Thorndike and behavioral psychologist B.F Skinner (Charles Strangor‚ 2010). Operant Conditioning is also known as instrumental conditioning (Kendra Cherry‚ 2013)‚ a different term but the same meaning. It is a term for a method in which involves punishment and rewards for different types
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Conditioning You know that moment when you are just hanging out in the shower‚ doing your thing‚ and you hear the toilet flush? My immediate reaction is to jump out of the water as fast as humanly possible. I have been conditioned by the sound of the flushing toilet to get out of the water because it is fixing to get scalding hot. This is called Classical Conditioning. "Classical conditioning is the learning process in which a neutral stimulus
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Not the Cause There are many different opinions regarding eating disorders‚ whether they are genetic‚ ethnic‚ cultural problems‚ or a culturally reactive problem. Stereotypes from the past believe that white middle class adolescents have the most related problems in eating disorders because of their anglo-saxon cultural backgrounds. Research has shown that imagery of the ideal Western body has had a chain reaction of body shape and eating habit conflicts between all ethnicities‚ cultures‚ body weight
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will be about the different types of eating disorders that affect today’s society‚ such as bulimia‚ anorexia and binge-eating. According to: eatingdisorderhope.com. Millions of people suffer of eating disorders within the United States this statistic includes not only females but males as well. Anorexia is an eating disorder that affects women more than men. According to the site: nationaleatingdisorders.org/anorexia-nervosa and anad.org. People stop eating because in their eyes they perceive
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