Eating behaviour - factors influencing attitudes to food and eating behaviour Flashcards
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Birch (early learning & experience)
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- rewarding eating with positive adult attention was effective in changing food preference
- classical conditioning: positive attention becomes associated with the neutral stimulus and encourages child to continue same eating behaviour. Food becomes conditioned stimulus and produces same happiness that the adult attention did
- supports SLT: food preference increased with positive adult attention, observer more likely to carry out behaviour if rewarded
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Lowe (early learning & experience)
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- children’s food preferences changed when witnessing older children eat more vegetables, led them to eating more veg
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Birch and Marlin (early learning & experience)
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- foods that children were most exposed to led them to having higher preference for it
- suggests exposure to good affects food preference at an early age
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Benton (early learning & experience)
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- sweet foods effective in reducing distress in young babies; innate food preferences
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Garg (mood)
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- participants randomly assigned to one of two groups
- one group watched happy film, the other watched sad film
- given food and drink (weighed before experiment)
- rate mood after film
- films were successful in creating desired emotions
- pps consumed 28% more while watching sad film
- suggests mood enhancement affects eating behaviour; when sad you eat more to cheer yourself up
- lab experiment: given food, did not have to buy in public
- well controlled: films were matched, order effects controlled for, random allocation, IV was isolated and measured
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Conner (mood)
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- students kept daily record of number of snacks and severity of daily hassles
- complete questionnaire to place into one of 3 groups (types of eaters)
- found that external eaters have positive relationship between hassles and eating
- no significant results for other groups
- shows that eaters were responding to external cues rather than internal cues
