Gorging on food and then vomiting or taking laxatives to avoid gaining weight is called:

Related Mcqs:

1. There are many different classes of antidepressant medications. If you were taking a MAOI (Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitor), which of these food lists should you avoid entirely?

   A. Alcohol, aged cheeses, salami and chocolate
   B. Carbonated drinks, egg, chicken and cake
   C. Milk, coffee, white bread rolls and pudding
   D. Green tea, cereal, beef and ice – cream

2. Food binges, self-induced vomiting and______abuse characterize bulimia nervosa.

   A. Self
   B. Drug
   C. Alcohol
   D. Laxative

3. Consider this sequence: (1) food, (2) salivation with food (3) light with food, (4) salivation with light. This procedure for presenting stimuli and observing responses with dogs is based on Pavlov’s experiments, and represents which sequence of classical conditioning?

   A. Unconditioned stimulus, conditioned response, conditioned stimulus, unconditioned response
   B. Conditioned stimulus, conditioned response, unconditioned stimulus, unconditioned response
   C. Unconditioned stimulus, conditioned stimulus, unconditioned response, conditioned response
   D. Unconditioned stimulus, unconditioned response, conditioned stimulus, conditioned response
   E. Conditioned response, conditioned stimulus, unconditioned response, unconditioned stimulus

4. Dilawar is taking personality test in which he is shown a series of simple scenes. He is supported to tell a story about what is happening in each scene and suggest what the characters are feeling. The test that Dilawar is taking is the:

   A. Sixteen Personality Factor (16 PF) naira
   B. Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
   C. Rorschach test
   D. Edwards Personal Preference schedule

5. A teacher is involved in such an activity he can identify clearly with what is taking place. Anyone outside the action has_________comprehending what is taking place:

   A. Approach
   B. Convenience
   C. Difficulty
   D. Quality

6. In a weight-reduction experiment, an overweight individual was given what the researcher called a new type of diet pill that would help curb the desire to eat in fact. the pill really contained powdered milk, but ever since the individual started taking the diet pill, he has reported that his desire to eat has decreased. This illustrates the:

   A. curvilinear relationship
   B. effect of extraneous variables
   C. natural experiment
   D. placebo effect

7. It increases that heart beat rate blood pressure and digestive tract mobility. Also, it may induce vomiting and diarrhea and even may cause water retention by kidneys:

   A. Alcohol
   B. Nicotine
   C. Dopamine
   D. All of the above

8. In order to understand that a ball of clay can take a different shape without either losing or gaining substance, which of Piaget’s stages must the child have reached?

   A. sensorimotor
   B. preoperational
   C. formal operational
   D. concrete-operational

9. Studying to avoid bad grade is an example of __________________?

   A. positive reinforcement
   B. negative reinforcement
   C. punishment
   D. escape

10. Studying to avoid bad grade is an example of ___________________?

    A. positive reinforcement
    B. negative reinforcement
    C. punishment
    D. escape