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AP Psychology 1.4 Motivation and Emotion. Which eating disorder involves ignoring hunger signals?
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- 00:03
Here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by sandwiches, well [Man on the phone thinking about sandwiches]
- 00:07
somehow they always taste better when your mom make them all right which
- 00:10
eating disorder involves ignoring hunger signals and here are the potential
- 00:14
answers.. all right bulimia anorexia... all right so the
- 00:18
disorder that involves ignoring hunger signals well a bulimia well bulimia is a
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- 00:24
disorder that involves cycles of binging and purging that is eating a large [cycle of bulimia binging and purging]
- 00:27
amount of food and then trying to get rid of the calories through vomiting
- 00:31
excessive exercise or fasting the question is looking for a disorder that
- 00:35
involves ignoring the urge to eat so it ain't bulimia, could it be C obesity well
- 00:41
obesity is a disorder that involves an excess amount of body fat and can be [Cat laid on a small sofa]
- 00:45
linked to poor diet we're looking for a disorder that involves ignoring the urge
- 00:49
to eat sopretty much the opposite of obesity. What about D narcolepsy well narcolepsy
- 00:55
while interesting actually has nothing to do with eating, narcolepsy is a sleep [Man sleeping and woman appears]
- 01:00
disorder that causes daytime drowsiness and uncontrollable sleeping episodes
- 01:04
honestly it doesn't even sound that bad to us..naps on naps on naps.. but we digress
- 01:09
so cross off D, how about E Munchausen's well here's the thing Munchausen's
- 01:14
disorder is a factitious disorder meaning a person acts like they have a [Person with Munchausen's discussing with a doctor]
- 01:18
physical or mental illness when in fact they're perfectly fine, again this really
- 01:23
has nothing to do with an eating disorder that involves ignoring hunger
- 01:27
moving on we're only left with B anorexia; anorexia is a condition in
- 01:31
which a person ignores the signals that their body sends them when it's time to [Girl by a market thinking about food and ignoring]
- 01:36
eat, which can be extremely unhealthy and unsafe people with anorexia have a
- 01:40
distorted body image and they think they're overweight when they really [Girl looking in the mirror thinking that she is overweight]
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aren't so yeah the correct answer is B
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