The role of learning in food preference

Question 1

Food preference is what?

Answer 1

the way in which people choose from any available foods on basis of biological and learned perceptions such as taste, health, characteristics, value, habits etc

Question 2

Social influences are what?

Answer 2

Parental influence and Influence of peers

Question 3

parental influence basic principle

Answer 3

Acquired from observing parents association between parent and child attitudes to food generally

Question 4

parental influence found by Brown and Ogden

Answer 4

consistent correlations between parent and child snack food intake, eating motivation and body dissatisfaction

Question 5

Birch et al parental influence found what method to do more bad then good

Answer 5

shown the “to eat ice cream you must eat some fruit” method was unsuccessful as a reward, it led to the tendency to decrease preference for distasteful food

Question 6

parental influence manipulation of food explains what

Answer 6

Parents manipulate certain foods as a reward e.g. sweet or due to perceived health gain eg. Reduced fat food

Question 7

Influence of peers- social learning theory stresses what? especially?

Answer 7

Stresses observing others (models) affect us

Same age peers found powerful influence

Question 8

Influence of peers-Gren halgh et al found what

Answer 8

observation of peers had positive and negative effects on food preference. If exposed to:
+ modelling increased likeliness to try the food
-Modelling inhibited novel food consumption

Question 9

Influence of peers- Birch found what?

Answer 9

exposure to another child could change food preference

Question 10

Influence of peers- Birch did what? result?

Answer 10

4 consecutive lunch times, kids sat next to each other preferred different beg to hat the other one preferred- at the end it showed change in veg reference and was still evident several weeks later