Why Does Adolescence Appear to Be a Prime Time for the Development

question 51

Multiple Choice

Why does adolescence appear to be a prime time for the development of eating disorders in females?

• A) It is the first time that girls receive media images promoting thinness.
• B) It takes someone at the formal operational stage of thinking to develop the obsessive food-related behaviors seen in anorexia and bulimia.
• C) The gene that controls eating does not "turn-on" until that time of life.
• D) The normal weight gain in puberty is viewed as problematic.

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Definitions:

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Otolithic Membrane

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Gravitational Equilibrium

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