Exam 2 Articles Flashcards
who were claude bouchard and antony tremblay?
canadian researchers who studied twins weight gain after overfeeding everyone by about 84,000 calories
discovered: biological determinism can contribute to the susceptibility of weight loss or gain
telling people they are genetically presisposed to being fat can become a…
self fulfilling prophecy
people see being fat as their destiny so they see no sense in fighting it
who were Rudolph Leibel and Michael Rosenbaum
studied the impacts of making participants lose 10 percent of their body weight and then compared their metrics (metabolism) to that of a person that is naturally that weight
found that the people forced to diet had lower metabolisms that people who were naturally their same weight
also found that after dieting, when the individuals saw food they had a much larger brain responses in their reward areas and smaller responses in control areas to said food
what aspect of motivation is the most important for weight management?
motivation quality rather than motivation level
what psychological need is most important for the persistence of behavior? why
autonomy,, it typically leads to intrinsic motivation
in our society weight loss motivation is typically extrinsically driven, why is this a problem?
long term weight loss is very tied to autonomous and instinsic motivation, when motivation becomes driven by external factors like societal standards etc. it can destroy intrinsic motivation
in the prejudice article: higher intrinsic motivation was directly related to
lower self report of racism
