SOC 102 Lecture Notes - Eating Disorder, Emaciation, Bulimia Nervosa
11 Feb 2013
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These negative comments were especially likely to be reinforced by audience laughter. Even worse than the medias promotion of thinness is the proliferation in the last 5 years of pro- anorexia websites. These websites glorify starvation and reinforce irrational beliefs about the importance of thinness. That some ppl become anorexic cuz of a pursuit of fitness rather than a pursuit of thinness. Activity anorexia- this concept refers to the loss of appetite when engaged in physical activity. Found that dancers, relative tro models, had higher rates of anorexia and more disturbed eating attitudes. But dancers also engage in much more strenuous physical activity. Suggest that the two interrelated motivational factors account for activity anorexia: food deprivation increases the reinforcement effectiveness of physical activity and physical activity decreases the reinforcement effectiveness of food. Hypothesizes that anorexics often display great interest in food and are sometimes obsesses with food but lack positive incentives for actually eating the food.
