Psychology 2054A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Overconsumption, Food Choice, Disinhibition
18 Dec 2016
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How can individuals differ?- how adult eating behaviour is categorized. Dietary restraint: deliberate restriction of food intake and calorie control. Emotional eating: eating because of alterations in mood, trying to improve or stabilize mood. Disinhibition: (cid:862)distra(cid:272)ti(cid:271)ility(cid:863)- any form of distraction e. g. , facebook, movies, tv etc. All of these things happen across a continuum, everyone from some extent experiences these things. Termination of eating before full activation of physiological processes of satiation i. e. , stopping eating before your body tells you to. Psychological process: allows us to react to environmental pressures. We need to exercise food restraint when it is scarce: rules are imposed to limit energy intake. One extreme is anorexia, on the other is someone who uses physiological cues to control what they eat. Most people are somewhere in between: generally predicts over-consumption. Boundary model (cid:862)nor(cid:373)al(cid:863) eaters: follow physiological needs for consumption, eat when hungry, fullness signals terminate meals.
