Eating Behaviour: Familiarity and Learning

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What did Birch and Marlin find?
Exposure of 2yr olds to a new food over 6 weeks incr preference for that food. Min. of 8-10 exposures needed for initial dislike to change. Children learn that food is safe.
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What is Neophobia?
Avoidance of unfamiliar foods in case it is poisonous.
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What might parents use to change a child's eating behaviour and what is it?
Operant conditioning ('if you eat that you can have pudding') and it is behaviour that is learned through reward and punishment.
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What study supports that operant conditioning changes food choices?
Lepper et al.
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What did Lepper et al do?
Told 28 kids a story about 'hupe' and 'hule' (made-up) in 2 different conditions- non-contingent condition and contingent condition.
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What did the non-contingent condition involve?
14 kids split in 2- 7 told a story where mum tells kid they can have hupe then hule and the other 7 told hule then hype (counterbalancing).
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What did the contingent condition involce?
Rest of kids split in 2- 7 told story where mother tells her child they can have hupe if they eat hule and 7 told story where kid can have hule if they eat hupe (counterbalanced).
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What did Lepper et al find?
No preference in non-contingent condition but in contingent one children preferred the food that was used as a reward. Kids rated their preffered food as tasting better. If story was 'hule if you eat hupe' they'd claim hule tasted better.
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Evaluate Lepper et al.
Good because isn't gender biased, has high int. validity= counterbalancing removes extr. variables & pre-decided opinions. Bad because, small sample size, age biased, no informed consent (but parental)= difficult to generalise, culture biased.
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Who found a positive correlation between mother's and children's diets?
Ogden.
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What other theory may influence a child's eating behaviours?
Social learning- learning through observation of role models.
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What did Duncker do?
looked at social suggestion on children's food choices- kids observed series of role models making food choices e.g. mum, randomer, fictional hero, friend and another child.
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What did he find?
Greatest food preference change was in the children exposed to an older child, a friend, their mum or fictional hero. Most likely to eat unfamiliar food if mum ate it. Therefore- parental behaviour is essential to the process of learning food behv's.
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