Hilda Bruch, a pioneer investigator of psychological processes involved in eating disorders, proposed that the self-starvation of individuals with anorexia was ____

a. related to their struggle for autonomy, competence, control and self-respect
b. an effort to punish their cold and controlling parents
c. an effort to prevent physical maturation
d. related to disturbed thought patterns arising from exposure to environmental toxins

a

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To investigate mother-infant relationships, which of the

following researchers separated baby rhesus monkeys from their mothers at birth and replaced them with wire and terry cloth surrogate (substitute) mothers? a. B. F. Skinner b. Harry Harlow c. Jerome Kagan d. Jean Piaget

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