Explanations For The Success And Failure Of Dieting Flashcards
Research support for ironic processes of mental control:
Soetens et. al (2006)
S: he divided participants into restrained and unrestrained eaters and the restraint group were divided into high or low on disinhibition.
Had this inhibited restrained great used more thought suppression than the other groups and showed a rebound affect
This shows that the strange because he tends to ovary try to suppress thoughts about food more and both end up thinking more about feet
support for the hedonic theory:
Brunstorm et. al (2004)
Support for this comes from studies of physiological and effective reactions to food.
B: Tested salivary responses in female participants when they were in close proximity is too hot pizza. Participants who were dieting showed a greater salivary response to the pizza than did those who were not dieting
This shows a difference between the reaction of restrained and unrestrained eaters in their perception of food
Real world application: anti-dieting programmes:
Higgins and Gray (1999)
Programs aim at replacing dieting with conventional healthy eating day they emphasise regulation buy for the hunger and CTT signals and also the prevention of inappropriate attitudes to food
H&G: found that participation in these programmes was associated with improvements in eating behaviour and psychological well-being with weight stability rather than weight change
This suggests that eating only when hungry and stopping when is more likely to be successful than food restricting
limitations of anecdotal evidence:
One issue is that memory is not 100% accurate. Also, the assessment of the success or failure of dieting isn’t entirely objective, creating problems for the reliability of the evidence provided.
Another issue is that causal connections between a particular approach to dieting and weight loss are made too easily without the control of extraneous variables
