eating behaviour - dieting Flashcards
1
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explanation for good diet
A
detail
2
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explanation for diet failure
A
denial/ ironic process theory
boundary model
3
Q
who postulated detail theory
A
redden
4
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describe detail theory
A
- 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
5
Q
role of denial in dieting
A
we try to supress or deny a thought but it has the opposite effect making a thought more prominant
6
Q
who did denial theory
A
wegner
7
Q
what did wegner call phenomenon of denial
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paradoxical effect of thought control
8
Q
what makes a person quit a diet?
A
- repetition
- monotony - routine etc
9
Q
explain ironic process theory
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- 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
