Life-threatening weight loss due to self-inflicted starvation is called:

Related Mcqs:

1. The loss of her in the anorexic is due to:

   A. dehydration
   B. a chromosome difficulty
   C. constipation
   D. loss of proteins

2. A person who has an extreme lack of self – confidence and who allows others to run his or her life is said to have a(n)________personality.

   A. dependent
   B. narcissistic
   C. paranoid
   D. antisocial

3. From the perspective of the life-span psychologist, life stages are important because:

   A. they represent the outcome of major biological changes
   B. they present a set of developmental tasks to be mastered
   C. they provide insight into the values and aspirations of particular cultures
   D. their beginning and end a perfectly correlated with chronological age

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

   A. behavioral dieting
   B. fad dieting
   C. purging
   D. bulimia nervosa

5. 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

6. Jamil and Qasim are identical twins, reared in different homes after their birth, due to the death of their parents. They are nineteen years of age and have personalities that differ sharply from each other. The reason of this difference in personality is most likely due to:

   A. the two having identical genotypes
   B. the environment
   C. heredity
   D. brain chemistry differences

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

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

8. Although Cara has been obese for as long as she can remember, she is determined to lose excess body weight with a low-calories diet. Cara is most likely to have difficulty becoming and staying thin because:

   A. the number of calories a person consumes daily has no effect on body weight
   B. she may have a higher-than-average set point for body weight
   C. her resting metabolic rate will increase and prompt her to over eat vigorous exercise
   D. fat cells can be lost only with vigorous exercise

9. Rudy has been on a strict diet of 1000 calories per day for the last six weeks. He lost considerably more weight in the first three weeks of his diet than in the last three because:

   A. his insulin level has decreased
   B. learn tissue is maintained by fewer calories than is fat tissue
   C. his metabolic rate has decreased
   D. his fat cells have decreased in number

10. Long-term regulation of body weight and fat has been associated with the following hormone:

    A. Hypothalamus
    B. Estrogen
    C. Cortisol
    D. Leptin