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AP Psychology 1.4 Motivation and Emotion. Which eating disorder involves ignoring hunger signals?

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Here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by sandwiches, well [Man on the phone thinking about sandwiches]

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somehow they always taste better when your mom make them all right which

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eating disorder involves ignoring hunger signals and here are the potential

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answers.. all right bulimia anorexia... all right so the

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disorder that involves ignoring hunger signals well a bulimia well bulimia is a

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disorder that involves cycles of binging and purging that is eating a large [cycle of bulimia binging and purging]

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amount of food and then trying to get rid of the calories through vomiting

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excessive exercise or fasting the question is looking for a disorder that

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involves ignoring the urge to eat so it ain't bulimia, could it be C obesity well

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obesity is a disorder that involves an excess amount of body fat and can be [Cat laid on a small sofa]

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linked to poor diet we're looking for a disorder that involves ignoring the urge

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to eat sopretty much the opposite of obesity. What about D narcolepsy well narcolepsy

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while interesting actually has nothing to do with eating, narcolepsy is a sleep [Man sleeping and woman appears]

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disorder that causes daytime drowsiness and uncontrollable sleeping episodes

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honestly it doesn't even sound that bad to us..naps on naps on naps.. but we digress

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so cross off D, how about E Munchausen's well here's the thing Munchausen's

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disorder is a factitious disorder meaning a person acts like they have a [Person with Munchausen's discussing with a doctor]

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physical or mental illness when in fact they're perfectly fine, again this really

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has nothing to do with an eating disorder that involves ignoring hunger

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moving on we're only left with B anorexia; anorexia is a condition in

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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]

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eat, which can be extremely unhealthy and unsafe people with anorexia have a

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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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