Key issue

Question 1

what is the key issue?

Answer 1

what is the influence of role models on anorexia?

Question 2

on estimate how many people in Britain have eating disorders?

Answer 2

60,000

Question 3

how many females have eating disorders in proportion of males?

Answer 3

9/10

Question 4

what has the highest mortality rate of all psychiatric illnesses?

Answer 4

anorexia

Question 5

what body fat levels did many models and actresses have in the 1990’s?

Answer 5

levels as low as 10%

Question 6

What is a healthy level of body fat for a women?

Answer 6

22-29%

Question 7

what do teens link being stick thin too?

Answer 7

Fame and fortune

Question 8

What did the British medical association say?

Answer 8

the medias obsession with painfully thin fashion models has contributed to the growth in eating disorders among younger women/girls

Question 9

11 concepts that could be included?

Answer 9

• observation
• modelling
• Imitation
• positive reinforcement
• vicarious reinforcement
• role models
• same gender
• similar age
• high status
• social learning theory
• punishment

Question 10

How can social learning theory be applied?

Answer 10

• it argues people learn by imitating role models especially those of the same gender
• celebrities are role models and are seen to have a higher status so their behaviour is likely to be imitated
• size zero models such as Eliana Ramos who dies as a result of her eating disorder are observed on TV and in magazines by young girls who then imitate them by restricting daily calorie intake to loose weight

Question 11

How can Bandura be applied?

Answer 11

• Bandura argues that behaviour is more likely to be imitated if it is rewarded and carried out by someone similar to the P’s/observer
• In this case the anorexic models are of a similar age to the girls who are imitating them and they are being rewarded for being size zero by getting modelling contracts by getting attention from the media and being paid
• Therefore vicarious reinforcement

Question 12

How does punishment apply?

Answer 12

If these roll models are banned for being size zero it could stop others imitating them.

• As a teenage girl watches the model losing work, media attention and money they may be less inclined to imitate them because that behaviour doesn’t lead to anything good
• Also by using bigger , healthier models it could lead to teenage girls realising being incredibly thin is not a good thing and will reduce anorexia cases.

Question 13

Who is Chloe Marshall?

Answer 13

The first ever size 16 beauty queen who made it to the final of miss England contest

Question 14

Who was Eliana Ramos?

Answer 14

A size zero modal who died from the eating disorder