Psychological Explanations For Obesity
- Created by: Bethany Cooling
- Created on: 31-05-18 17:40
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- Psychological Explanations For Obesity
- Restraint Theory
- Restrained eating is counterproductive
- End up gaining more weight due to disinhibition
- Cognitive Control
- Consciously think about their weight and eating
- Categorise food into 'good' and 'bad'
- Restrained eater becomes more occupied with food than they were before
- Ignore important physiological indicators - no longer eat when hungry and stop when full
- Restrained eating is counterproductive
- Disinhibition
- A period of restrained eating is often followed by disinhibited eating
- Restraiined eaters vulnerable to disinhibited eating due to food related cues
- Internal disinhibitors - mood
- External disinhibitors - media
- Cognitive
- Distorted thinking
- Disinhibition caused by stress and food cues
- Thoughts stay with them until the end of the binge
- All-Or-Nothing thinking
- continues to eat because there's no point stopping once you've started
- Distorted thinking
- Boundary Model
- Biological Processes
- Food intake exists on a continuum from hungry to satiated
- When energy levels dip below a 'set point' we feel an aversion of hunger and feel motivated to eat
- When we are full we are uncomfortable and are motivated to stop eating
- Psychological Processes
- Zone of biological indifference
- Area between hunger and satiated boundaries
- Biological processes have little effect on eating during this zone
- Food related beliefs and rituals, social norms and irrational beliefs have control
- People who restrict their food intae have
- Lower hunger boundaries - they are less responsive to feelings of hunger
- Higher satiety boundaries - they need more food to feel full
- Zone of biological indifference
- Biological Processes
- Restraint Theory
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