Today in class we watched a movie about Emily, a young woman suffering from anorexia. In the documentary we watched Emily's daily life and the struggles that she has been fighting for the past 8 years. Using the information that you learned today in class about drive reduction theory explain how Emily reduces the drive of feeling overweight and restores her body back to homeostasis in her mind. Use specific examples in your answer and make sure you explain drive reduction theory. Also explain how a drug addict and Emily's battle with anorexia are similar and different. Also, tell me what Emily's drug is.
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Drive Reduction Theory states that a motivated behavior is an attempt to reduce the unpleasant tension in the body to a state of homeostasis. Emily suffers from anorexia nervosa, which is an eating disorder that is associated with an intense fear of weight gain. Normally, when someone becomes hungry they eat, but instead of eating Emily exercises to fill the pain. She eats at night and has a "ritualistic" way of eating. She claims, "[she] doesn't deserve to eat." Emily's addiction is similar to that of a drug addict, in which both struggle with underlying reasons that are usually beyond their control. Most of the interventions seem to have a common theme where the parents have split and one is not present in the addicts life. The cycle for behavioral addiction and drug addiction are very close as well. In emily's case the brain produces a similar neurotransmitter as those released when using drugs.
ReplyDeleteThe Drive Reduction Theory says that motivated behavior is an attempt to reduce the unpleasant tension inside the ody to a state of homeostatis. Emily is an anorexic, therefore, she suffers from starving herself because she does not want to gain weight. Emily fits falls under the Drive Reduction Theory because her drive is to starve herself because she needs to have a perfect body because thats all she has control over, so to feed her need for food, she exercises and occasionally eats late at night in a ritualistic way. Emily's addiction is not necessarily starving herself, but the fact that she craves perfection and control of something. She has control of her body and the way she eats. Her actions and behavioral addiction is similar to drug addictions. Its similar because she has a craving, she feeds that craving, feels guilty, then does her 'drug' again to take care of her sad guilt. In other words, drug addicts crave a drug, Emily craves control and perfection. Drug addicts go and do that drug for the pleasurable high, while Emily starves herself and does her rituals and exercise to make her feel good. Drug addcts feel guilty about doing the drug, while Emily feels guilty in a way for the way she treats her body, but she thinks she deserves it. Drug addicts feel sad from their guilt, therefore, they do the drug again to make them happy again, while Emily feels overweight and depressed again she continues to starve herself and exercise. In conclusion, both types of addictions follow the same cycle and are just as dangerous, but in different ways.
ReplyDeleteDrive reduction theory says that it is a type of certain behavior that results in the unpleasant tension in the body that takes to a state of homeostasis. Emily feels overweight when shes not. She wants to loose weight and try to eat as little as she can. She constantly worksout throughout the day. Her drug was the control that she had. But it was hard for her let go of that control she had. She doesn't eat until absolultly necessary, until she excerzices. It can be related to drug addicts because there is some sense of pain that triggers them to become what they have. But drug addicts go through withdraws and its not the same types of withdraws that she would go through. Drug addicts use substances to numb themselves but for her it was just the control that she took upon it. They are both the same in a way because drug addicts also are not really confessing what really is going on, they deny it.
ReplyDeleteDrive Reduction Theory states that a motivated behavior is an attempt to reduce the unpleasant tension in the body to a state of homeostasis. Emily, a young woman suffering from anorexia, struggles with a eating disorder, paranoid that she will gain weight. Some days she will only eat as much as just a peach and exercises excessively. It is a ritual way of eating some nights. In the video she has a plate of green vegetables and eats it a certain way. First, she cuts the lettuce into a certain amount of small pieces. Then, she has a certain way of eating each bite that she does the same way every single time because she fears change. Emily has a drive to starve her self and exercise excessively so that she can have a "perfect" body. Emily's battle with anorexia are similar to a drug addict because like her battle with anorexia, a drug addict would do their drug to feel better, then after they feel guilty and become depressed and the cycle starts over. They are different in Emily's case she doesn't have a physical drug that she uses to cope with stress and other things. Instead of having a physical drug, Emily's "drug" is starving herself and too excessive exercise.
ReplyDeleteThe drive reduction theory says that motivated behavior is an attempt to reduce unpleasant tension in the body to a state of homeostasis. In Emily's mind, she restores her body back to homeostasis by starving herself and exercising exessively.She barely eats during the day and when she does eat, she does it very late at night. She says that the later she eats, the more she feels like she has "won" at not eating. She only eats vegetables, no carbs or protien. She is very OCD about the way she prepares her food and the way that she eats it, even counting her pieces of food. Emily's battle with anorexia is similar to a drug addict in that starving herself and working out makes her feel the reward just as a drug addict gets their reward from doing their drug. Also, when she does eat, she feels guilt and the need to work out again, just like a drug addict feels after doing their drug. This drives the circle of addiction. Emily's battle is also different than a drug addict in that she makes herself eat because if she does not, then she is going to die. Also, instead of having a substance as her drug, the exercise and starvation are her drug. They are the only things that she feels like give her and identity.
ReplyDeleteThe Drive-reduction theory states that motivated behavior is an attempt to reduce the unpleasent tension inside the body to a state of homeostasis. Emily's way of getting her body to a state of homeostasis is starving herself and excersising a lot; this eventually made her have anorexia nervosa. With barely eating during the day and excersising all the time she has became extreamly under weight to the point where she is becoming extreamly sick, but in her mind she still thinks she is fat and doesn't deserve to eat. When she does eat it is very late at night and always the same meal prepared and eaten the same way. She has this ritual because it is the only thing she can control in her life and now that she got started on it she feels as if she skips even one step in her eating process her whole life will be ruined. She mostly eats only veggies and fruits because anything else will make her fat. Emily's situation is similar to a drug addict because her not eating is giving the same reward as a drug user using a drug. Drug users start becoming addicted to a drug after something tragic happened in their life and they use it as a way to cope with it same with Emily's situation after getting raped and parents splitting up her starving herself is her way to cope with it and as she feels "punish" herself. The cycle of addiction is also present as after she eats she feels guilty so she starves herself and then realizes if she doesnt eat she will die so she eats again and the cycle starts over again. Her situation is different as a drug user as she doesn't get "high" from starving herself and she doesn't use to to escape it's more of a punishment. Emily's "drug" is starving herself and exsessive excersise so that she can have a little control and order in her life.
ReplyDeleteThe Drive Reduction Theory says that motivated behavior is an attempt to reduce the unpleasant tension inside the ody to a state of homeostatis. In Emily's case, she restores her body back to homeostasis by starving herself and exercising continuously. Some days she will only eat a peach. Emily's addiction is not only starving herself, but the fact also that she craves perfection and control over something. he felt like others contolled her life so she took control over her body and the way she eats. Her behavioral addiction is similar to drug addictions. Its similar because she has a craving. She will feed that craving, then feel guilty, then does her 'drug' again to take care of her guilt. Basically what i'm saying is, drug addicts crave a drug, which in Emily case she craves control and perfection. In Emily's case the brain produces a similar neurotransmitter as those released when using drugs.
ReplyDeleteDrug addicts go and do that drug for the dopamine high, while Emily starves herself and does her rituals and exercise to make her feel good. It's all about the dopamine baby!
The Drive Reduction Theory started that motivated behavior is an attempt to reduce the unpleasant tension inside the body to a state of homeostasis. Emily is a woman who has anorexia nervosa. Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder associated with an intense fear of weight gain and a distorted body image. Emily has an eating routine, which is every night, but only vegetables. She gets no protein or carbs. Instead of eating when she's hungry Emily exercises. She also suffers from comorbidity, which is someone who has 2 or more mental illnesses. Emily is very OCD about how she deals with her anorexia and how she eats and prepares her little amount of food. Emily's drugs are her starving herself, exercising a lot, and tons of laxatives to get the food back out of her system. Unlike drg addicts, her starving herself isn't for the reward of a temporary "high", but she does it because she feels like she doesn't deserve to eat. Her behavioral addiction cycle happens in the same pattern a drug addicts does.
ReplyDeleteThe Reproductive theory states that motivated behavior is attempted to reduce the unpleasant tension inside the body to the state of homeostasis. Emily, a young women suffering from anerexia nervosa, a serious eating disorder that is associated with an intense fear of becoming obese. Emily's fear is becoming over weight she works out obssesively and eats hardly anything. In one day she only had about 800 calories which is what we eat in one meal. Some days she only has a peach and some nights she makes herself a traditional lettuce, celery and onions but she has to eat them a certian way and if she doesnt eat it the same way everytime it makes her go crazy. She is scared of change and does the samething everyday and lives by the same schedule.
ReplyDeleteEmily's behavioral addiction is the same of a drug users addiction. If she does her same routine she feels happy and good but if she does anything different it upsets her. When her family talks about her anorexia it makes her mad because she doesnt think anything is wrong. Like drug users they feel happy when they are high on the drug hiding from there problems but, as soon as the high is over they remeber all the bad things that happen and need a way to hide from their sadness. She wil always have to deal with managing food for the rest of her life but drug users can avoid using their drug for the rest of their lives.
The drive reduction theory states that motivated behavior is an attempt to reduce an unpleasant tension inside the body to a state of homeostasis. For example, when a person is hungry they eat or when someone is thirsty, they drink. Emily, on the other hand does the opposite. When her body tells her to eat or that she's hungry, she does not eat. Emily didn't eat, and when she did it would be late at night and it would be vegetables; food with no meat or protein for her body. She also would workout everyday, even in the shower. No matter what her body looked like, she thought she was fat. Emilys addiction and a drug addicts addiction are very similar and very different at the same time. The feeling a meth addict gets when they shoot themselves up is the same feeling Emily gets when she doesn't eat. It's a feeling of accomplishment almost. They both are addicted to the feeling it gives them. It also hurts them, it doesn't help in any way. But also, they are different. Emily's drug is is starving herself and exercising way too much. She feels like she can't complete her day without it.
ReplyDeleteThe Drive Reduction Theory says that motivated behavior is an attempt to reduce the unpleasant tension inside the body to a state of homeostasis. Emily has an eating disorder called Anorexia. Anorexia is associated with an intense fear of gaining weight and a distorted body image. When a normal person’s body tells them to eat, they eat and when it tells them to drink, they drink. Whenever Emily’s body tells her to eat, instead of eating she will exercise. But whenever Emily does eat, it’s usually at night and she eats in a ritualistic way. Emily’s disorder is similar to drug addiction. Drug addicts usually start a drug after something awful has happened in their life, and in Emily’s case, she was raped. Then there is the cycle that drug addicts go through. She will begin to have her craving, and then she will feed or take care of that craving, then start to feel guilty and then redoes her drug to take care of her guilt. Emily’s “drug” is to starve herself and to constantly exercise.
ReplyDeleteDrive Reduction Theory talks about how motivated behavior is an attempt to reduce the unpleasant tension inside the body to a state of homeostatis. For example, whenever you gte hungry or thirsty your instinct is to go eat and drink. The documentary we watched talked about a girl named Emily who suffered with anorexia. Anorexia is a seriouseating disorder. Emily did this because she didn't like the way she looked so she barley ate. Whenever Emily would eat it would be late at night and she never liked when people watched her eat. When she would eat she would count out how much food she would need and wouldn't go any number higher than that. Drug addiction is similar to emilys addiction because when you do a drug you feel plessure and accomplishment, whenever Emily looses weight she feels better but she doesn't know how bad it's affecting her and her family. The cycle that addicts go through is the same as Emily's. She will crave something then eat it, after that she will feel ashamed of herself and start to take her drugs to make her feel which is by not eating.
ReplyDeleteThe Drive Reduction Theory states that motivated behavior is an attempt to reduce the unpleasant tension inside the body to a state of homeostasis. Emily is a young girl who has an eating disorder and suffers from anorexia. Usually, when a person is hungry, they look for food. Or when a person is thirsty, they find something drink. Instead, Emily does the complete opposite. When she gets hungry, she doesn't eat but she exercises. Emily rarely ever eats a real meal. In one day, all she has to eat and drink is coffee and a peach. When Emily actually does eat a real meal, its all vegetable. No meat, which gives her a lack of protein. Also when Emily does eat, she has an order that she follows. For example, she would eat a certain amount of lettuce. Doing this kept her up all night. Drug addiction and Emily's addiction are very similar but different in many ways. Emily gets the same feeling as a drug addict gets. When a drug addict does the drug, it gives them a feeling that they enjoy. Same with Emily, when she starves herself and exercises, it makes her feel good. But the difference is a drug addict actually is addicted to a drug, such as meth or marijuana. Emily's "drug" is starving herself and exercising.
ReplyDeleteDrive Reduction Theory states that a motivated behavior is an attempt to reduce the unpleasant tension in the body to a state of homeostasis. Emily is an anorexic, which means she is constantly starving herself because she does not want to gain any weight and whenever she does eat she looks at herself and hates herself for it. She all throughout the movie says that she doesn't deserve to eat but she has to eat something to stay alive but that is the only reason she eats. most of thee time when her body tells her it is hungry she goes and exercises instead but when she has to eat barely enough to live she eats very late at night so nobody can watch her. Like drug addiction Emily's anorexia is very similar in the fact that when she sticks to her routine exercises and routine life style she is fine but when her family tries to change it she get very angry and frustrated like a drug user who is fine when they are on their drugs but crazy and going into withdrawal without it. Unlike addicts she will have to manage her eating and food intake while drug users can avoid their addiction all together and drug addicts are addicted to the dopamine the drug causes while Emily is addicted to exercise and weight loss.
ReplyDeleteDrive Reduction Theory states that motivated behavior is an attempt to reduce the unpleasant tension inside the body to a state of homeostasis. In the intervention we watched, Emily has Anorexia nervosa, which is a serious eating disorder that is associated with an intense fear of weight gain and a distorted body image. When we are hungry our first thought is to eat, but Emily’s first thought is to exercise. She will not eat in front of her family and has a ritual every night of how she eats. Emily also has OCD, when she eats she has to eat in a specific way. She believes she doesn’t deserve to eat, no matter how thin she is, she looks at herself as being fat. Emily struggle with anorexia is the same to a drug addict by the fact that her not eating is the same has someone using drugs. Not eating is her reward. It is different than a drug addicts in that she doesn’t get an actual high and isn’t using an actual drug. Emily’s drug is starving herself and when she is hungry she exercises to get rid of the hunger.
ReplyDeleteDrive Reduction Theory states that a motivated behavior is an attempt to reduce the unpleasant tension in the body to a state of homeostasis. Emily is a young woman suffering from anorexia and is paranoid that she will gain weight. Some days she will only eat as much as a peach and a cup of coffee, and then exercises excessively. At night, when she does eat, she has a certain ritual she has to follow while preparing, cooking, and eating. First, she cuts the lettuce into a certain amount of small pieces. Then, she has a certain way of eating each bite that she does the same way every single time because she fears change. Emily has a drive to starve herself and exercise excessively so that she can have a "perfect" body. Emily's situation is similar to a drug addict because her not eating is giving the same reward as a drug user using a drug. Drug users start becoming addicted to a drug after something tragic happened in their life and they use it as a way to cope with it, same with Emily's situation after getting raped and her parents splitting up, she starves herself to cope with it and she feels like she has "punish" herself. They are different in Emily's case she doesn't have a physical drug that she uses to cope with stress and other things. Instead of having a physical drug, Emily's "drug" is starving herself and too excessive exercise.
ReplyDeleteDrive Reduction Theory states that a motivated behavior is an attempt to reduce the unpleasant tension in the body to a state of homeostasis. In class we watched an intervention episode of about a woman who suffered from anorexia nervosa; the fear of gaining weight.
ReplyDeleteThe woman’s name was Emily. She was born a twin, and throughout her life she has felt inferior to her sibling and constantly feeling like her life is a battle. Then when she gets older her parents get a divorce while she is in college; also while she is in college she gets drugged and raped. The worst part was she did not file charges against attackers.
With anorexia nervosa, you have a fear of gaining weight. So when she gets hungry, she exercises to fill the void of being hungry. Usually when people get hungry they eat food, but not in this case.
Drug addiction is similar but also very different. Drug addiction is usually addicted to the point of death. With anorexia you could also die, but the chances are less likely. On the other hand, drugs have withdrawal symptoms, but anorexia does not.
Emily’s drug is to stay fit and not gain weight. She does not believe that she deserves to be happy and eat. I believe that she does this because she wanted to kill herself, that or she just wanted to be so different than her sister.
Drive Reduction Theory is where your behavior represents what you want, like an attempt to reduce unpleasent tension. For example whenever you are thirsty you go look for a glass of water to stop your thirst; the same thing with hunger, sleep, ect. Emily is an anorexic that suffers from fear of weight gain, whenever she gets hungry she excersizes to fill the need for hunger and might drink a glass of water. Emily doesnt really eat often and whenever she does eat its usually a cup of coffee and a peach, or she cooks herself some lettuce. She follows steps in the way she eats, she doesnt let people watch her when she does. Some of the simliarities between Emily and a drug addict are that of the underlying reasons for why they do what they do and the cycle works the same way. Their addicted to the drug and shes addicted to what she does to herself; which is excercising and not eating, basically starving herself to death.
ReplyDeleteDrive Reduction Theory is when some physcological need occurs that creates a state of tension which in turn motivates you to reduce the tension or satisfy the need. In the film we watched Emily was a woman who suffered from anorexia. Anourexia is an emotional disorder characterized by an obsessive desire to lose weight by refusing to eat. Emily battle with this everyday of her life always feeling like she was too big and needed to lose weight when in reality she was too small, almost to the point of death. The way emily coped with her problem is by eating very few times a day and when she did eat she ate no meats and very little and she had to be alone along with several other rituals. Most of the time to avoid eating tho Emily would excercise several times a day to keep weight off only eating small amounts when she knew she had to in order to avoid death. Excercise was one thing that reduced her drive of feeling overweight. Emily's disorder is similar to a drug addicts disorder because it causes just about almost all of the same problem. For example in the intervention we watched about the drug addicts and the one about Emily i took notice to how it tore the families apart and caused her loved ones and the people around her emotioanl stress and heartache. Emily was also in denial about her addiction and thought she was perfectly fine just like every drug addict we watched. The difference in the two are the major effects drugs can have on your life and body. Anorexia makes you lose a ton of weight but does not nearly destroy your body and brain as much as drugs do. The road to recovery would still be hard for Emily but maybe not as hard as a hardcore drug addict. Emily's drug was the excercise.
ReplyDeleteThe drive reduction theory states that motivated behavior is an attempt to reduce an unpleasant tension indie the body to a state of homeostasis. This basically means that when ever you feel a certain way you do something to relieve that tension. For example since Emily felt like she didn't deserve to eat, whenever she did eat she was very meticulous about what she ate and how she ate it. She felt like she didn't deserve to eat because she had an unpleasant childhood as well as getting rapped when she was in college. These events triggered her anorexia. Emily's disorder is similar to that of a drugs addicts because it destroyed her body to the point were death was upon her. She was also addicted to exercise which for in her cases drive her to her eating disorder. Emily also underwent withdrawal symptoms, similar to the way a person addicted to heroin would. Although her symptoms may not have been as harsh as withdrawal symptoms of a heroin addict but it did have similarities. In the end she was starving herself to death, a death that would be similar to that of a drug addict.
ReplyDeleteEmily suffers from anorexia nervosa, which is a serious eating disorder makes her stave herself in fear of gaining weight. The Drive Reduction Theory states that motivated behavior is an attempt to reduce the unpleasant tension inside the body to a state of homeostasis.Emily feels overweight when in reality she isn't at all. Most days she eats only a peach to get through the day. Emily fits the the Drive Reduction Theory because her daily drive is to starve herself she is trying to attain this perfect body when in reality she is just killing herself slowly. Usually when someone is hungry they eat, but instead of eating Emily exercises to fill the pain. She eats during the night "ritualistic" way of eating. Her actions and behavioral addiction is similar those of drug addicts. She has a craving, she feeds that craving, feels guilty, then does her 'drug' again to cover the empty feeling. Drug addicts crave a drug, Emily craves control and perfection over her body. Emily's drug is starving herself and her rituals of eating and exercise to make her feel good. Drug addcts feel guilty about doing the drug, while Emily feels guilty in a way for the way she treats her body, but she thinks she deserves it. Emily and the way drug addicts behave are very similar yet different.
ReplyDeleteEmily is a woman who suffers from anorexia, a disease that causes a person to be paranoid about gaining weight and makes them hesitant and reluctant to eat. The drive reduction theory is when a person has a behavior that they perform to relieve tension inside the body and return their mind to a state of homeostasis. This relates to Emily because she convinces herself that by exercising, she can eliminate her desire to eat. This makes the unpleasant feeling in her brain and body return to a state of homeostasis. Excercise can be considered her drug, because exercise releases chemicals that make you feel good. This is similar to a drug addiction because she's using something to make her feel better, it's just something natural that occurs within the body. It's different because rather that putting something in her body, she won't put anything in her body.
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