Explanations for the success and failure of dieting

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1. What role do hormones, particularly ghrelin, play in the failure of dieting?

  • They are just there bloody deal with it
  • Makes you think you are hungry when you have just eaten
  • Stimulates appetite, making hungry people feel hungrier
  • When you are hormonal, you will want to eat more regardless of dieting restrictions
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2. What percentage of Americans did Bartlett report that can be classed as overweight or obese?

  • 35%
  • 65%
  • 40%
  • 85%

3. What is a weakness of these studies?

  • Low ecological validity
  • Most are Eurocentric and gender biased to mainly women
  • Ethnocentric and androcentric
  • Reductionist and doesn't support psychology being a science

4. Diets will work best if they teach pps new eating and lifestyle habits. Why?

  • New habit and lifestyle, seen as a long term and permanent change to keep weight off in changing mindset and eating behaviour together
  • Changes the cognitive belief to say that you can do it
  • It shows that you can't go back and forces you to focus to change rather than the diet itself
  • It's a placebo effect to help you lose and keep off the weight

5. What does BMI stand for?

  • Body most index
  • Body massive interaction
  • Body mass index
  • Belly meets indigestion
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