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Class 6 Flashcards

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Kemmerspeck

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Weight gained from emotional eating

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Social facilitaion

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Eating more when we’re around other people. It’s a social activity

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Impression management

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Eating in order to fit in or not be embarrassed. Eating less or healthier

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Minimal eating norm

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Good manners. At least in some cultures is to eat small amounts toa avoid seeming rude

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Modeling

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Eating whatever others eat

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Mindless eating

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Proposed by Brian Wansink. The notion that more of our eating behaviour is automatic instead of thoughtful

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Mindless eating study

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They went to a movie theater and gave away free popcorn in large and medium containers

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Mindless eating outcomes

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45% of people ate more fresh popcorn when it was out of the big tub

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Mindless eating conclusion

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We are influenced by the container size

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Mindless eating study part 2

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The same as above but with 14 day old popcorn.

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Mindless eating results part 2

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33.6% of people ate more popcorn from the large container despite reporting to not liking it

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Reports of mindless eaters

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77% of people given the large tubs said they would have eaten the same amount if given a smaller container

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Dish size and consumption

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The smaller the dish the less people will eat. Especially snack

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Bottomless soup procedure

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He gave some people a bowl of soup and others a bowl that never got less than half full

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Bottomless soup outcome

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The ones with the bottomless bowl reported being more hungry despite eating more

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Visual perception and portion

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People are more likely to eat more when the color of the plate and food is the same

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Healthy food places

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Customers underestimate and over consume calories

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Healthy items on the menu

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Make the unhealthy options seem better, and by considering the healthy option people feel more justified in the unhealthy one

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The beginning of psychology and sex

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Freud proposed that all female enjoyment should be removed

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Masturbation in 1876

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Was reported as the leading cause of mental illness

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Alfred Kinsey

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First to take a scientific approach to sex in the 1940’s. Tried to debunk myths about female sexuality

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Alfred kinsey conclusion

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Men and women as sexually similar but women have lesser sexual capacity

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Masters and Johnson

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Found that the orgasm is the same in both genders but women have higher sexual capacity because they can have many orgasms

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Masters and Johnson’s 4 stages of sex

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Excitement, plateau, orgasm, resolution

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Compared to women men...
* Think about sex more often * Initiate sex more often in relationships * Desire sex more often in relationships * Masturbate more * Report fewer problems with low sexual desire * More often pay money or offer gifts for sex * More often watch (and pay for) pornography * Have orgasms more reliably and easily than women
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Claim that men think about sex way more than women
Not true. Men think about it every hour, women every hour and a half
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Clark and Hatfield study
In 1989 had an attractive man and women ask people 3 questions
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Clark and Hatfield 3 questions
Go out with me tonight Come over to my apartment tonight Go to bed with me tonight
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Clark and Hatfield results
Men were way more likely to say yes to apartment and bed, Similar for a date
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Problems with Clark and Hatfield's study
Riskier for women to agree | Men and women are perceived differently when the propose causal sex
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Chivers, Seto, and Blanchard 2007 videos
``` –Control film (landscape with relaxing music) –Heterosexual sex –Homosexual sex (gay & lesbian) –Woman masturbating –Man masturbating –Naked man walking –Naked woman exercising –Bonobo sex ```
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Chivers, Seto, and Blanchard measured arousal in 2 ways
Self report-asked them | Physical monitoring- blood flow to the penis and vaginal walls
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Male results of the videos
Reported and were physically stimulated by their preferred gender pairings
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Women results of the videos
Reported greater arousal with their preferred couple but were aroused by all the videos (except beach man)
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Better sex results in
Men staying, wives satisfied later into the marriage, and men's satisfaction fluxgate with frequency
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Better relationships result in
Better sex overall when the communication and perception of stability is high
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Women's desires
Decrease for the frequency of sex as they age, but men don't
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Approach reasons for sex
To feel good, share intimacy, and to have fun
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Avoidance reasons for sex
Stop the partner from leaving, or being upset, or the stop feeling guilty
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Affiliation need
The need to build relationship or be part of a group
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Motivation of relationships
Attraction and affiliation
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Attraction
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
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Female beauty standards in the early 1900's
Heavier women were considered more attractive
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Female beauty standards now
Thinner, but the waist to hip ratio has stayed the same
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Twiggy
A star from the 1960 who made being skinny popular
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Waist to hip ratio and fertility
Married women with a higher ratio reported having more difficulty conceiving
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Singh goal
To find if attractiveness has to do with waist to hip ratio
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Singh experiment
He asked men to rate female drawings with 3 different weights and heights, and 4 different waist lines
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Results of Singh's experiment
Women with medium weight and the most curves are the most attractive
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Ideal waist to hip ratio
0.7
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Men who are hungry and waist to hip ratio
The prefer women who weigh more and pay less attention to the body shape
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Birds of a feather
Proved that there is a strong correlation for like people attracting
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Opposites attract
No science to back this up
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Matching phenomenon
Men and women of similar attractiveness are drawn to one another
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Montoya 2008 study
Paricipants were asked to rate faces. and then the participants faces were rated by an independent source.
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Montoya 2008 study results
Physical attractiveness of participants affected their judgements
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Why the matching phenomenon
The person's standards are different, yet non attractive people still view their spouse as attractive
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Results of people asked to rate the attractiveness of their spouses
Average of 8.06, three quarters rated higher than a 7 and 85% rated their partner in the top 30%
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Men and women attractiveness focus
Men focus on physical attraction (baby abilities) and women focus on financial support (for her and her baby)

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