PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Chantal Petitclerc, Judith Rodin, Kelly D. Brownell

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Doug Mc Cann

Document Summary

Chantal petitclerc is one of canada"s finest athletes. Since losing the use of her legs in an accident at age 13, she has gone on to dominate women"s wheelchair racing events. She holds many world, commonwealth, and paralympic records. Clark hull explored the drive concept to investigating motivation. Cannon theorized that stomach contractions cause hunger. Kelly brownell argues that modern societies have created a toxic environment for eating. Stanley schachter advanced the externality hypothesis that obese people are extrasensitive to external cues that affect hunger. Herman and polivy have introduced a distinction between normative as opposed to sensory-external cues. Richard keesay: set-point theory proposes that the body monitors fat-cell levels to keep them (and weight) fairly stable. Trivers: the sex that makes the smaller investment will compete for mating opportunities with the sex that makes the larger investment, and the sex with the larger investment will tend to be more discriminating in selecting its partners.