eating behaviour - dieting Flashcards
explanation for good diet
detail
explanation for diet failure
denial/ ironic process theory
boundary model
who postulated detail theory
redden
describe detail theory
- pay attention to food you eat
- people like stuff less when repetitive
- repetition and monotony makes dieting hard
- enjoyment of diet depends on how repetition is percieved
- overcome through thinking about what you eat in DETAIL
EVALUATE DETAIL
+ REDDEN
- ARTIFICAL/LACKS E V
+ PA - DIETERS AND DIET COMPANIES
- INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES - DOESNT WORK FOR EVERYONE
role of denial in dieting
we try to supress or deny a thought but it has the opposite effect making a thought more prominant
who did denial theory
wegner
what did wegner call phenomenon of denial
paradoxical effect of thought control
evaluate role of denial
+ wegner
- artifical
+ pa
- ID
- alternative exp
what makes a person quit a diet?
- repetition
- monotony - routine etc
explain ironic process theory
- wegner
- when we try not to think about food we think about more
- researched this with a white bear and told people not to think about a ber and found they about it more than people told not to think about the bear
- there is a paradoxical effect
- which leads to a period of disinhibition
- it requires mental activity to distract from eating food but this means we dont heva the cognitive capacity to repress thoughts about food
- it would require all of our time to be distracted from food
evaluate ironcic process theory
+ adriaanse
+ practical applications for diet companies
- individual differences - some people, whilst a minority - are not effected by this
- ironic process theory may not be the influential in real life, there is a lot of evidence from lab studies, but in natural environments it my not be that large of an effect and instead self-esteem may be a more important factor in the failur/sucess of dieting. This leads psychologists to question ironic process in every day life
what was adriaanse research?
two groups of females trying to reduce sugary foods
one group were told not to eat cholcate when theyre sad and other negative statements
control group were not told anything and just recorded food intake normally
negative group ate a lot more because they were told not to think about it
this is paradoxical effect
reddens research
group 1 given general computer info ‘ bean number 7’
group 2 were given specific info ‘ cherry blast flavour bean number 8’
group one = bored
group 2 = enjoyedd
detail = enjoyment
