Exam 3: Psychology of Eating and Diet/Exercise Flashcards
why is eating important? (4)
- Do it several times a day
- Food choices impact health
- Source of pleasure/reinforcement
- Crucial for sustaining life
definition of everything by Hua tribe of Papau
that which can be eating and that which cannot
how does eating cut across all areas of psychology? (7)
- Developmental: how infants regulate food intake
- Cognitive: memory/cognition impact how much is eaten
- Social: eating is influenced by other people and situations
- Clinical: disordered eating
- Health: eating has clear health effects
- Personality: individual differences in eating habits
- Cultural: major differences across cultures
What determines how much people eat?
When others are, after you workout, reward, hungry, weight goals, routine (time), see/smell food
what the hell effect (boundary model)
with dieters, they create a boundary in their mind about how much food they are allowed to eat but when you cross the boundary there is nothing to stop you from continuing to eat more
- Ignore feelings of hunger and ignore feelings of fullness ⇒ focus on their own rules about fat or calories
results of dieters with no milkshakes
eat a little bit of ice cream after
results of dieters with 2 milkshakes
eat a lot of ice cream after
results of non dieters with 0 milkshakes
eat a lot of ice cream after
results of non dieters with 2 milkshakes
eat a little bit after
if your eating is regulated by hunger how do you act?
you don’t tend to binge eat ⇒ eat in response to hunger as a healthy eater
what are contributions of the first diet study? (4)
- Dieters regulate their eating differently than non dieters
- Dieting may lead to binge eating
- Recognized dieters are an important group for psychologists to study
- Inventing a new methodology for studying eating
Consumption of dieters vs non dieters when a non fat preload is labeled as high fat
- dieters thought they broke their diet but didn’t actually
- Still ate a lot just as if they the high calorie shake was real
- Not about fat or sugar but about cognitive factors
what did consumption of a non fat preload labeled as high fat show?
eating a certain amount was not a biological impulse
Consumption of dieters vs non dieters when a high fat preload is labeled as non fat
- Don’t feel like they broke their diets
- The dieter bar isn’t tall because they don’t believe they ruined their diet
Consumption of dieters vs non dieters when stressed
- Stress makes dieters overeat but not other people as much
- Dieters eat more when stressed or depressed
- Sometimes stressed non dieters eat less
Consumption of dieters vs non dieters when others are in the room
- They are influenced by the other person in the room
- This does not affect non dieters as much
conclusions of the pre-load diet study?
- The eating of non dieters is influenced more by hunger than by cognitive, social, or emotional factors
- The eating of dieters is influenced more by cognitive, social, and emotional factors than by hunger
how did people with memory damage and non memory damaged brains respond to lunches given to them?
- control patients with correct memories ate the first meal and laughed/rejected the second meal
- for non memory subjects, on all occasions they ate the first lunch and they all ate the second lunch fully ⇒ they also ate a third lunch
- tells us that memory matters
how does memory influence our meals?
Important for starting and stopping a meal ⇒ more important than hunger and satiety
results of eating study where children ate as much as they wanted for 6 days
- Amount of calories eaten at particular meals from day to day ⇒ highly variable
- Amount of calories eaten per day from day to day ⇒ highly stable
- children regulate their intake by day ⇒ parents don’t think about the whole day
what should parents decide in the division of labor for feeding kids? (3)
- What foods to offer
- When meals will occur
- Where meals will occur
what do kids decide in the division of labor for feeding? (2)
- How much to eat
- Whether to eat at all
→ put good foods out and kids regulate themselves
how to make your kids hate a food (3)
- Reward them for eating it
- Require them to eat it
- Remove it from the normal food rotation
how to make your kids like a food (2)
- Limit how much of it they can have
- Keep it in the normal food rotation
if you want to find out as much as possible about the food someone likes and eats what’s the best question to ask?
What is your ethnic or cultural group
- Food choice is highly based on culture not biology
what are psychological effects of hunger? (6)
- Irritable
- Unreasonable
- Weak
- Apathetic
- Have hallucinations ⇒ visual
- Become obsessed with food