A02 attitudes to food and eating behaviour Flashcards
What are the 3 sections
Social learning
Cultural influences
Mood and eating behaviour
What are the 2 sections for eating behaviour
Research support
Much more than learning
Who gave general research support
Meyer and gast
Fisher
What did Meyer and gast di and find
Found a correlation between peer influence and attitudes to food and eating behaviour which supports the theory of social learning in terms of this tooic5
What did fisher do and find
Checked eating behaviour of mothers and their daughter
Found that the best predictor for the daughters eating behaviour is her mother’s dietary restraint
Negative point
It’s much more than social learning
Talk about how it’s much more than social learning
We don’t just acquire our attitudes through the observation if others.
There are reasonable evolutionary explanations to that explain why we have such behaviour for the sake of survival e.g. Our preference for fatty and sweet foods.
What are the 2 sections for cultural influences
Ethnicity
Social class
Who tested ethnicity
Mumford et al
Striegel-moore et al
What did mumford do and find
Found bulimia more frequent in Asian girls than in white girls
What did Striegel-moore et al do and find
Found that black women, compared to white women, worried more about being thin.
This goes agaibst the cultural influence explanation.
Who tested social class
Story et ak
What did story et al do and find
Challenged dornbusch findings
Higher social class was in correlation with greater weight satisfaction and lower rates of Wright control behaviours.
Conclusion for social class
Suggests that there’s no correlation.
As many other studies suggest
