Eating Behaviour Flashcards

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Mennella

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children who preferred sweet solutions over salty ones were tall for their age
makes sense for evolution in EEA as children who sought out more calories were likely to grow and more likely to survive

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Garcia et al

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studied taste aversion 1st
rats who had been made ill through radiation shortly after eating saccharin developed an aversion to it and very quickly associated illness with the saccharin

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Brown and Ogden

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reported consistent correlations between parents and their children in terms of snack food intake, eating motivations and body dissatisfaction

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Birch

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showed how exposure to another child could change food preferences
four consecutive lunchtimes, children were seated next to other children who preferred a different vegetable to the one they preferred
at end of 4 days these children showed a change in their vegetables preference that was still there after a follow-up several weeks later

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Macltyre et al

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the media have a major impact on what people eat and their attitude to food
many eating behaviours are limited by personal circumstances - age income, family

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Maguire at el

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in the UK, the number of takeaway restaurants has risen by 45% in the last 18 years

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Stanley et al

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repeated injections of NPY into rats caused obesity in just a few days

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STROBER ET AL

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research shows eating disorders (AN) run in families

1st degree relative of individuals with AN have 10x greater lifetimes risk of having AN (STROBER ET AL)

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Wade et al (twins AN)

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interviewed over 2000 female MZ and DZ twins evaluating using DSM criteria for AN
claimed heritability rate of AN = 58%

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Klump et al (Adoption studies)

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studied 123 adopted siblings pars and 56 biological sibling pairs
due to relatively low prevalence of AN disordered symptoms were assessed instead
there heritability estimates range from 59% - 82% for the different aspects of disordered eating with non-shared environmental factors

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Serotonin (BAILER ET AL)

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measured serotonin activity in women recovering from either restricting-type anorexia or binge-eating/purging types
they were compared with healthy controls
significantly higher serotonin activity in the women recovering form the binge-eating/purging type compared to the other two groups
highest levels of serotonin activity in women who showed most anxiety suggesting that persistent disruption of serotonin levels may lead to increased anxiety

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Dopamine (Kaye et al)

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used PET scan to compare dopamine activity in the brains of 10 women recovering from AN and 12 healthy women
In AN = overactivity of dopamine receptors in a part of the brain known as the basal ganglia

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Limbic System dysfunction (Lipsman at al)

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neural roots of AN appear to be related to a dysfunction in the limbic system in the brain specifically the subcallosal cingulate and the insular cortex
dysfunction in these areas (normal function =emotion regulation) can lead to deficits in emotional processing
which lead to the pathological thought and behaviours which are typical of AN

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Minuchin et al

the ‘psychosomatic’ family

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necessity for development of AN = a dysfunctional family along with a physiological vulnerability in the child
the aim of treatment is to fix the family
includes: Enmeshment, autonomy and control also rigidity and lack of conflict resolution

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Barber and Buehler (enmeshment)

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enmeshment stifles the development of child’s ability to deal with common social stressors and makes development of AN much more likely

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Minuchin et al

The child’s involvement in the psychosomatic family

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identified three characteristic patterns of conflict-related behaviours which involve the child

1) Triangulation
2) Parent-child coalition
3) Detouring

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Bandura

Social learning theory and AN

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people learn by observing the behaviours of others as well as observing the outcome of that behaviour
will produce similar outcomes if the perceived behaviour gains positive outcomes

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Hill et al (AN)

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found similarities between mothers’ and daughters/ restraint and dieting behaviours among children as young as 10

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Peer influences (eisenberg et al)

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us study which found that dieting amongst friends was significantly related to unhealthy weight control behaviours eg. use of pills or purging

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Peer influences Jones and Crawford)

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overweight girls and underweight boys were most likely to be teased by their peers
shows that through teasing peers enforce gender-based ideals

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Peer influences (Gravener et al)

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examined association between peer dieting and drive for thinness in over 2000 men and women of 3 age categories
found significant associations between perceived peer dieting and a drive for thinness in both men and women
women = strongest in late adolescence and for same-sex peers
men = association meant nothing

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Button et al (Media influence)

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girls with low self esteem at 11-12 were a significantly great risk of developing an eating disorder at 15-17

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A cognitive behavioural model of AN (Garner and Bemis)

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Anorexia patients have characteristics in common
typically, high-achieving perfectionists, introverted and often full of self-doubt
coupled with exposure to cultural ideals of thinness - leads to focus on weight and shape
as a result - AN individuals develop irrational belief that losing weight will reduce distress
losing weight becomes self reinforcing due to sense of achievement
once importance of being thin = established focus on eating develops
develops into fear of food and weight gain which leads to avoidance of food

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Fairburn et al (the transdiagnostic model)

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AN in maintained by 3 characteristics

1) an enhanced sense of self-control leads to increased self esteem
2) the physiological and psychological changes they experiences as a result of their starvation are perceived as being in control which leads to them being intensified
3) due to focus on weight and appearance - individual increased self monitoring of weight any weight gain or loss perceived as too slow leads to increased efforts to restrict

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Maes at al (meta analysis)
Twin studies
Biological explanations for Obesity

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average heritability = 40% to 75%
- 7000 individuals found heritability estimate for BMI = 74% in MZ twins and 32% in DZ
even when raised apart MZ twins are more alike in BMI than DZ twins who are raised together

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Herman and Mack - Restraint Theory

Psychological explanations for obesity

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the conscious restriction of food intake to prevent weight gain or promote weight loss
proposes that attempting to restrict actually promotes overeating

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Westenhoefer et al

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women who scored higher on flexible restraint reduced their subsequent ice cream intake following a preload of milkshake, whereas those who scored higher on rigid restraint did not reduce their ice cream intake following the reload

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Herman and Polivy - The boundary model

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according to model - food intake =regulated along a continuum - hunger at one end satiety at the other
in between two ‘zone of biological indifference’
- where the individual is neither full nor hungry
- food intake based on cultural and social factors
retrained eaters have a larger zone - they have a lower threshold for hunger and higher for satiation
also ‘what the hell’ approach because dietary boundary already gone passed they continue eating

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Bond et al

Disinhibition

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removal of the normal inhibitions to overeating, resulting in the tendency to overeat in response to a number of different stimuli

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A theory of hedonic eating (Stroebe)

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might be that restrained eaters are more sensitive to hedonic (pleasurable) properties of food

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The role of denial (Wegner et al)

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attempting to suppress of deny a thought frequently has the opposite effect
asked some P’s to not think about a white bear but to ring a bell if they did, and other to think about the bear
those who told not to think about bear rang their bells more the other p’s

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Detail - the key to a successful diet (Redden)

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the secret of successful dieting lies in the attention we pay to what is being eaten
people usually like experiences less as they repeat them
when it comes to dieting this makes it harder to stick to
suggests we should think of the details of a meal

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The jelly bean experiment (Redden)

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gave 135 people 22 jelly beans each one at a time
with each bean info was flashed onto a screen
one group saw general info e.g bean 7
one group saw specific flavour details
p’s got bored eating beans faster if they only saw general info and enjoyed task more when seeing the specific flavour