PSYCH UNIT 3- Success and Failure Dieting - Food

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1. Denying a thought has an opposite effect making what you're trying to deny yourself more prominent. What is this known as?

  • Restraint Theory
  • The Success of Dieting
  • The theory of Ironic Processes of Mental Control
  • the Breakdown Model
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2. Who discovered in a meta-analyisis that Anti-diet programmes led to eating improvements and better psychological well-being?

  • Wardle and Beales
  • Watson et al
  • Higgins and Gray
  • Herman and Polivy

3. An issue with Redden's Jelly Bean study is that...

  • there were high levels of control
  • it was a laboratory experiment and therefore lacked mundane realism and participants were prone to demand characteristics
  • people got ill from too many jelly beans

4. Which enzyme did Kern et al claim may lead to the failure of dieting?

  • Nueropeptide Y
  • Cortisol
  • Lipoprotein Lipase
  • Serotonin

5. What are the methodological issues within research into the success and failure of dieting?

  • sample sizes are too large
  • people restrain their food intake which is not right
  • Data is often drawn from anecdotal evidence which can be innaccurate and subjective
  • lab studies lack ecological validity
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