Transcript File - Psychology LA

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Parleen
Becca
Muneer
Trishan
Karimah & Aaron
Topic 1 – Eating Behaviour.
Attitude to food
STARTER
A) What is an attitude?
Write a definition
B) Three things you have
an attitude about
Think
Pair
Share
HOT QUESTION
Can an attitude be changed? How?
Learning Objectives
•ALL will understand the
factors influencing
attitudes to food and
eating behaviour
•Some will be able to
evaluate these factors
which affect attitudes to
food and eating
Learning Outcomes.
• Create a definition of what ‘attitudes’
are.
• Rate images of food and discuss what
you like and dislike about certain foods
• Identify factors that explain attitudes
to food through case studies
• Complete a unit 3 exam question to
demonstrate learning.
Introduction to Unit 3
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3 topics.
Eating Behaviour
Relationships
Gender or Aggression
3 sections in the exam 24 marks each.
Questions will include a mixture of A01
and A02.
• Either be 24 mark essay or 2 -3
questions equalling 24 marks in total
Eating Behaviour – new topic!
• First section is about eating behaviour
• This ties in with eating disorders but
helps us to get some background on
attitudes to eating first
• How societies and cultures and
individuals view eating will of course
help us to explain eating disorders
• We need to understand the difference
between a behaviour becoming a
disorder and a behaviour being usual to
that culture
Rate these foods – how much do you like/dislike
them?
What made you rate a food in a particular
way?
Factors that effect attitudes to food.
• Work in 2 groups.
• Create a mind map of different factors
that might influence your attitudes to
food.
• Prepare to explain why you have
identified these factors.
5 minutes
Case studies
• In pairs read the 5 case studies and
identify what is influencing that
person’s attitude to food.
• Prepare to explain your case study and
the factor to group.
Steve
Steve grew up on a farm with both his parents in
Somerset. Steve’s favourite food is beef with mashed
potato which he loves to eat at dinner time. Since being a
young boy Steve has watched his parents eating potatoes
and beef produced on the farm at dinner time and would
then join them when old enough. Mash potato has always
been a family favourite and Steve has fond memories of
eating together as a family throughout his childhood.
Eating beef and mashed potato now reminds him of this
time.
Parental modelling
AO1
• Observing the behaviour of parents is
important in forming attitudes to food
• Parents control what food is bought and
served in the home
• Brown and Ogden (2004) found consistent
correlations between children and their
parents on snack food intake, what
motivates eating and body dissatisfaction.
• What approach does this link to?
Tasnia
Tasnia loves eating Milky Way chocolate bars. As a child
Tasnia used to love watching children’s programmes on
television. During the commercial adverts she used to
repeatedly laugh at the advert for Milky Way chocolate
that showed a red and blue car racing against each other
to get to the centre of the Milky Way. As a celebrity fan
and reader of heat magazine Tasnia always sees her
favourite girl group (little Mix) eating Milky ways. She
just can’t resist!
Media effects
AO1
• Social learning through media is evident
through impact of TV and other forms of
media.
• MacIntyre et al (1998) found media
impacted on WHAT people eat and attitudes
to food.
• They also found this impact is affected by
personal circumstances like age, income and
family.
• Can you think of an example?
Diana
Diana is a teenager who lives on the East coast of Australia in
the ethnically diverse capital city of Sydney. Diana has a
difficult relationship with food and was recently diagnosed as
having Anorexia Nervosa. Many of Diana’s white friends in her
class also are very concerned with their weight and some have
admitted to Diana they throw up their food after eating. Diana
has recently gotten close to 2 new Asian students in her class
that originate from South Korea. They don’t seem to share the
same difficult relationship with food that Diana and her other
friends do and they have been very supportive. Diana decides
to carry out a confidential survey of her class mates to find out
who also shares her issues with food and finds that white
students report more problems than students with an Asian
and Black ethnic background.
Ethnicity
AO1
• Research suggests body dissatisfaction and
related eating concerns/eating disorders are
more common in white women than black
and Asian Women (Powell & Khan 1995).
• Ball and Kenardy (2002) 14 thousand women
between the ages of 18 and 23 in Australia.
For all ethnic groups the longer time spent in
Australia the more women reported attitudes
and eating behaviour similar to women born
in Australia.
Kim
Kim Kardashian is a famous celebrity and daughter of Robert Kardashian
a wealthy businessman living in the state of California. Kim is very rich
and used to a glamorous lifestyle and getting attention for the way she
looks. After becoming pregnant Kim put on a lot of weight and became
quite distressed and dissatisfied with her body. This story appeared a
number of times in celebrity magazines and she immediately began the
Atkins diet and soon began to lose weight dramatically. Experts have
warned that losing weight so quickly is quite dangerous and could lead to
obsession with losing weight and eating disorders. Kim has ignored these
warnings as her celebrity status and wealth mean that losing weight is a
top priority. At Kim’s home her house keeper (who earns 1% of Kim’s
income) often makes derogatory comments about Kim behind her back
and can’t understand why she is so concerned with her weight when she
has a beautiful curvy figure.
Social Class
AO1
• Studies have found body dissatisfaction and
dieting is more common in higher-class
individuals.
• Dornbusch et al (1984) survey 700
Americans teenagers and found higher class
females had a greater desire to be thin and
were more likely to diet.
• Scottish Health survey (2003) Income was
positively associated with healthy eating
(Goode et al 2008)
Tom Daley
Tom is normally an upbeat person who eats healthily
and finds that this extends his good mood. Recently
Tom’s life took a turn for the worst. Last month he
broke up with his boyfriend and lost a diving
tournament at the same time. Since going through the
break up and losing his world title he has put on a lot
of weight. He feels really unhappy and depressed and
he is eating a lot of chocolate and snacks during the
day whist watching a lot of television to try to forget
about how he feels.
Mood
AO1
• Binge eating can be a temporary escape from negative
mood.
• Garg et al (2007) observed food choices of 38 people
watch sad or happy movies. PP’s could choose between
grapes or popcorn.
• PP’s consumed more popcorn watching the sad film
compared with the other group who ate healthier grapes.
• Unhappy PP’s want to jolt themselves out of their
negative mood whilst happy PP’s want to extend this
good mood.
• Presenting nutritional information to the PP’s before the
experiment changed the result.
• What do you think happened? What type of ex design is
this?
Plenary
• Answer this 4 mark A01 question.
• Outline factors influencing attitudes to
food and eating behaviour. (4 marks)
• Thoughts:
• How would you answer?
• Would you pick all 5 factors we have
covered?