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Abnormal Chapter 8
Abnormal psychology Ch. 8 vocab - Eating disorders
Question | Answer |
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Eating disorder involving recurrent episodes of uncontrolled excessive (binge) eating followed by compensatory actions to remove the food | Bulimia nervosa |
Relatively brief episode of uncontrolled, excessive consumption of food | Binge |
Eating disorder characterized by recurrent food refusal, leading to dangerously low body weight | Anorexia nervosa |
Pattern of eating involving distress-inducing binges not followed by purging behaviors | Binge-eating Disorder (BED) |
In the eating disorder bulimia nervosa, the self induced vomiting or laxative abuse used to compensate for excessive food ingestion | Purging techniques |