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So, anyone started? any idea what your doin?
Got any ideas or tips?
anywhere to find information?
 

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im not at home atm

but its something along the lines of
theres a growing amount(?) of obesity in australian children
and it has 3 topics one is the psychosocial factors impacting on the phenomenon.
another is the neurological basis? affecting it
and thirdly its how compulsive eating disorders and their clinical treatments impact on it.
i gota get back to u on the precise questions though
 

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Yuck... I think our one on road rage was nicer/easier. I'd be interested to hear what the exact question was...

Feel free to post your finished product on here, boinkBoink.. there're a few ex-psy104/5 students who I'm sure will proofread (or at least skim) for you!
 

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"There!is!a!growing!problem!of!obesity!among!Australian!children.”
Choose one of the following options to examine this topic:
1. Review and evaluate research on the psychosocial!factors involved in this phenomena
OR
2. Review and evaluate research on the neurobiological bases of obesity and whether these may be
impacting on this phenomena
OR
3. Review and evaluate research on compulsive eating disorders and clinical treatments for these
conditions!that may be useful in dealing with this phenomena"

thats the exact question
found it now.
 

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Holy crap, thats... well..crap! Which one are you going to do? I wouldnt touch the neurobio one. The last one sounds good, v. intersting (for me anyway).. it sounds like something most girls would be intersted in.

Good luck to you darling 104 students... give me road rage any day! :)
 

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This was very similar to the road rage one. Different topic but 3 choices on perspective.
 

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yea like
totally not goin to essay 2
i dont even know what a neurobio whatever is
im thinkin 1 or 3
but then most people would do 1 or 3
me thinks
 

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hahha boink thats same as me... asked my friends and their like... anything but 2...
i think the neuro is something about the brain or something hell shit house...
 

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yea sounds like that lecture with that boring lady
on all those atoms or whatever it was
i dunno i just drifted away
action potential was all i heard
 

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ive tried searching stuff on those database thingys and come up with nothing
 

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Questions: (Quoting boinkBoink, but the formatting's bugging me)
1. Review and evaluate research on the psychosocial factors involved in this phenomena
Personally I'd do this one, but that's because I love social psych, and I'd learn more that interests me with this one... obviously Self Esteem would be looked at, along with the people around you, how they are, how much they eat, how they feel when eating, or what caused the consumption, (ie what generally happens to a bar of chocolate when a girl is upset?) the individual's opinions to their consumption, exercise habits (and the reasons for them), etc. Probably anything but a biological reason for obesity could come into this. Advertising, fast food (ie 'supersize me')... you name it, you could twist it. ALSO, you'd look at social ways of helping it, I assume. Ie if Self Esteem is a cause/correlate, then changing it may help the disorder. As said, IMO you'll learn more from this, and probably be able to apply the general theories you learn in the future.

2. Review and evaluate research on the neurobiological bases of obesity and whether these may be impacting on this phenomena
Opposite of the above, generally. Ie. Heritability, genetics, big bones, that food is a reward and it causes this or that neurotransmitter to be released, etc. Probably a more technical essay, but easier to write (but more difficult to research in that the research is more technical) as everything's set in stone, empirical evidence, rather than theories of how this might effect that, etc. Easy if you put your mind to it. Read the textbook (Gleitman, right?) and understand the basics of neuro first, though, I think.

3. Review and evaluate research on compulsive eating disorders and clinical treatments for these conditions that may be useful in dealing with this phenomena" Personally I think this'd be the hardest, but that might be because I'm not interested in the clinical side of things. I assume this is in the journals, but in my experience journals seem consist of experiments and theories, not clinical treatments. Would require looking at which drugs are administered to help people affected by compulsive eating disorders, or the therapies they go through... I'd imagine it'd take elements from the two of the above.

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ive tried searching stuff on those database thingys and come up with nothing
Lol you'll need to learn how to use those thingys... you'll find a good source of articles for your essay is the references in other articles. It's good to take note as you read the article, because then you know who talks about what, and it also helps you later when you've gotta reference different peoples' ideas.
 
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ahhhh
and i chose topic3 lol
only cause it seemed like the easiest to write about =\
no?

someone gimme a heads up on this
so its just writing on "compulsive eating disorders" and like "treatments" available for these disorders?
ya?
 

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hahah boink... thats exactly what the question is about :p...
im still kinda tossing up... i got no idea what to write for q1... but q3 seems like its very specific... so im not sure...
im gonna start the essay today.. it seems alot easier than bba103 assignment
 

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boinkBOINK said:
ahhhh
and i chose topic3 lol
only cause it seemed like the easiest to write about =\
no?

someone gimme a heads up on this
so its just writing on "compulsive eating disorders" and like "treatments" available for these disorders?
ya?
if you do q3... would you talk only about over eating? or would you also talk about anorexic and stuff...
if you talk about anorexic too... hows it relate to the quote at the top about obesity?
 

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uhm
well thats a good question lol
binge eating disorder -> compulsive eating disorders
same thing?
yay? or nay?
 

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fuck this is bullshit, im gonna do the first one... seems easier... i got this feeling you can only talk about binge and obesity for q3... not anorexia since the question should relate to the quote...
 

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i thought the first one was harder
i couldnt find much info on it \=
but i found heaps on the 3rd one
cause its so like direct? u know what ur looking for.
 

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boinkBOINK said:
but i found heaps on the 3rd one
where did u find it???

i went library 2day and couldnt find anything

i feel im goin 2 b screwed 4 this essay
 

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all i did was look on that database thingo on the net
heaps of stuff on binge eating disorder and stuff
they said its otherwise known as "compulsive eating disorder"
so its same thing right?
 

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