A01 attitudes to food and eating behaviour Flashcards
What are the 3 subtitles for the explanation of attitudes to food and eating behaviour
Social learning
Cultural influences
Mood and eating behaviour
Intro to social learning
Emphasises the impact that observing others has on our own attitudes and behaviour towards food.
What are the 2 sections to social learning
Parental modelling
Media effects
Who tested parental modelling
Brown and ogden
What did brown and ogden do and find
Found correlation between parents and kids in terms of snack food intake, body dissatisfaction and eating motivations
Conclusion for parental modelling
Children’s attitude to food is influenced cz of their observations of their parents
Who tested media effects
Macintyre et al
What did macintyre et al do and find
Media has an impact on what people eat aswell as their attitudes to food
However their eating behaviours are limited by personal circumstances such as low income, age:etc.
What are the 2 sections for cultural influences
Ethnicity
Social class
Who tested ethnicity
Powell and khan
Ball and kenardy
What did Powell and khan do and find
Body dissatisfaction and eating disorders mire common in white than black or Asian women
What did ball and kenardy do and find
Studied women I Australia
Found that for all ethnic groups, the longer the women stayed in Australia the more likely they reported attitudes and eating behaviour as women who were born there.
This is the acculturation effect.
Who tested social class
Dornbusch et al
Goode et al
What did dornbusch do and find
Found higher class women tended to car more about what they ate and dieted more often. And more wanted to be thin
What did Goode et al do and find
Analysed hospital records of Scotland
Found a correlation between wealth and healthy eating.
