Essay Questions
1. What is the likely cause of eating disorders?
Key Points:
- The main eating disorders and their signs/symptoms.
- Biological models and genetic transmission versus learned predispositions.
- One of the primary sets of psychosocial factors in the development and course of eating disorders are social pressures and cultural forces.
- In cultures where thinness is the ideal of beauty, eating disorders are most prevalent.
- People who come from certain types of families may also be more vulnerable to particular types of eating disorders.
- A recent perspective, which fits with family and genetic/personality models, suggests that eating disorders are the product of maladaptive emotion regulation processes.
