Psychological explanations of obesity

According to the boundary model, restrained eating is self-defeating. The vast majority of people who restrain their eating fail to lose any weight.

• true

• false

A restrained diet is a highly________way of imposing the control which restrained eaters believe is the way to lose weight.

• Organised

• disorganised

By placing limits on what and how much they eat, the restrained eater no longer eats when they are hungry and stops when they are full. This is called a ____________ outcome

ignoring physiological indicators that signal hunger and satiety, and this leads to __________ of eating behaviour.

• inhibition

• disinhibition

A period of restrained eating is often followed by _________ eating in which the individual eats as much as they want.

Restrained eaters are vulnerable to internal and external food-related cues such as __________ (internal) and smells or media images (external).

• Mood

• Posture

• taste-buds

Restrained eaters are vulnerable to internal and external food-related cues such as mood (internal) and ____________ (external).

• Smells and images

• thinking

• Metabolism

The cognitive process that governs disinhibition is a form of distorted thinking such as ______________

• all-or-nothing thinking

• Catastrophising

• Labelling

• Mind reading

In terms of the model, eating begins at the hunger boundary and stops at the satiety boundary.

Between these two points is the zone of ___________________where biological processes have minimal effect.

• Biological difference

• Biological indifference