Multiple Choice Questions

Multiple Choice Questions (Enter your answers on the enclosed answer sheet)

• 1) How do you distinguish between the binge-eating/purging type of anorexia nervosa and bulimia
  nervosa, purging type?

1. A) People with the bulimic type are normal weight, people with the anorexic type are under–

weight.

1. B) Altered eating and exercise habits result in missed periods in the bulimic type only.
2. C) The bulimic type involves throwing up and the anorexic type involves fasting.
3. D) The bulimic type results in more severe health consequences than the anorexic type.

• 2) Cindy is 5 ‘8” tall and weighs 92 pounds. She is very concerned about her weight. However,

at times she finds herself eating large amounts of food – several boxes of cookies, gallons of ice
cream, entire cakes – all in an evening. Afterwards, she makes herself throw up. Cindy’s most
likely diagnosis is

1. A) anorexia nervosa, binge–eating/purging type.
2. B) anorexia nervosa, restricting type.
3. C) no disorder.
4. D) bulimia nervosa, purging type.

3) Which ofthe following do those with anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa have in common?

1. A) restricted eating
2. B) a need for control
3. C) fear of being or becoming fat
4. D) below normal weight

• 4) Elena binges on high calorie foods and then makes herself throw up. She feels terribly
  ashamed and distressed by what she does. You would predict

1. A) she will not stop because her vomiting is reinforced by anxiety reduction.
2. B) she will stop making herself throw up because she is ashamed and distressed.
3. C) she will stop because her vomiting is being punished by the feelings of disgust and shame.
4. D) she will not stop because she has become physiologically addicted to vomiting.

5) Binge-eating disorder

1. A) is the eating disorder diagnosis most recently added to the DSM.
2. B) is more common in males than in females.
3. C) usually develops into anorexia, binge–eating/purging SUbtype.
4. D) has not yet been formally recognized as a distinct clinical syndrome.

• 6) All of the following are reasons for the effectiveness of antidepressants in the treatment of
  bulimia nervosa EXCEPT

1. A) improved mood.
2. B) lessened preoccupation with physical appearance.
3. C) decreased frequency of binges.
4. D) decreased appeti