The impact of observing other people has on our own attitudes and behaviour.
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Whats parental modelling?
Observing the behaviour of their parents. Parental attitudes affect children because parents control the foods brought and served in the home.
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What did Brown and Ogden Find?
Reported consistent correlations between parents and their children in terms of snack food intake, eating motivations and body dissatisfaction.
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Whats Media Effects?
The role of social Learning in the impact of TV and other media on attitudes to eating.
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What did Malntyre et al find?
Media had a major impact both on what people eat and their attitudes to certain foods. However, eating behaviours are limited by personal circumstances, such as age, income and family circumstances.
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Who supported this?
Meyer and Gast
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What did Meyer and Gast find?
Found a positive correlation between peer influence and disordered eating.
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Whats an evolutionary explanation?
Our preference to fatty and sweet foods is a direct impact evolved adaptation from our ancestors.
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What are the positives of this experiment?
Fisher and Birch (Mothers and Daughters). RLA Educate parents on healthy eating. RLA Jamie Oliver (school dinners)
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What are the negatives of this experiment?
Reductionist. Beta Bias. Culture Bias. Deterministic. Ignores eating behaviour for when you are older
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Who carried out research on Ethnicity?
Powell and Khan
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What did Powell and Khan find?
Body dissatisfaction and related eating concerns and disorders are more characteristic of white women than black or asian.
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What did ball and Kenardy research?
Studied thousands of women between 18-23 in Austrailia
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What did they find?
The longer the time spent in Australia, the more the women reported attitudes and eating behaviour similar to women in Australia (Acculturation effect)
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What did Dornbusch find about social class?
Survyed 7,000 American adolescents and concluded that high-class females had greater desire to be then and are likely to diet than lower class are.
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Supported by Story el al, who found?
American students, high class lead to greater food satisfaction.
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Elaberate Binge Eating.
1 hour before a binge belimic people had more negative states than 1 hour before a normal meal.
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What did Wagner et al find?
Students recorded their meals and mood states over a week. They found that binge days they had low moods compared to non-binge days.
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What did Garg et al find about Comfort eating?
Study on left overs eating junk food correlates with low moods.
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Supported by Parker who found that?
Chocolate has a slight anti-depressent effect on some people. Emotional eating strategy prolong rather than help empty moods.
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What are the postivies of the research?
High Face Validity. Future - make them happier (life style) improve their eating behaviour.
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What are the negatives of the research?
Parker et al - Actually makes you feel worse. Mood is difficult to measure.
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Observing the behaviour of their parents. Parental attitudes affect children because parents control the foods brought and served in the home.
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