The form of sugar that circulates in the blood and provides the major source of energy for body tissues. When the level is low, we feel hunger.
What is glucose?
100
The media has contributed to a growth in these types of disorders.
What are eating disorders?
100
When someone reaches the body mass index of 30 or greater they are considered this.
What is obese?
100
Wanting to be around people
What is affiliation?
100
When arousal response to one event spills over into the response of the next.
What is the spillover effect?
200
Area of the brain that controls hunger
What is the hypothalamus?
200
Eating disorder characterized by episodes of overeating followed by vomiting, laxative use, fasting, or excessive exercise.
What is bulimia nervosa?
200
Obese people have an increase in the number of these. Instead of being relatively empty like a normal healthy person, they swell to two or three times their normal size.
What are fat cells?
200
Wanting to be alone
What is autonomy?
200
A machine, commonly used in attempts to detect lies, that measures several of the physiological responses accompanying emotion.
What is a polygraph?
300
This hormone is secreted by the pancreas and controls blood glucose
What is insulin?
300
Significant binge-eating followed by distress, disgust, or guilt, but without the constant purging, fasting, or excessive exercise that marks bulimia nervosa.
What is binge-eating disorder?
300
The reason people are more likely to become obese when their friend becomes obese.
What is social influence?
300
social exclusion
What is ostracism?
300
part of the automatic nervous system that releases the stress hormone epinephrine (adrenaline) and norepinephrine (noradrenaline) enhancing a "fight" response
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
400
The point at which an individual"S "weight thermostat" is supposedly set. When the body falls below this weight, an increase in hunger and a lowered metabolic rate mat act to restore the lost weight.
What is set point?
400
The most common age group for eating disorders.
What are adolescent girls?
400
This has to increase when someone gains weight because more energy is required in order to carry out basic bodily functions.
What is metabolism?
400
knowing and understanding what is going on
What is competence?
400
part of the automatic nervous system that calms the body triggering a "flight" response
What is the parasympathetic nervous system?
500
The hormone secreted by an empty stomach that sends out "I'm hungry" signals to the brain.
What is ghrelin?
500
Define anorexia nervosa
What is an eating disorder in which a person diets and becomes significantly underweight, yet, still feeling fat, continues to starve?
500
true or false: Genes can influence how much we weigh.
What is true?
500
true or false: People oftentimes stay in abusive relationships because they fear being alone.
What is true?
500
The effect of facial expressions on experienced emotions, as when a facial expression of anger or happiness intensifies feelings of anger or happiness.