PSYCH291 Final: Schachter and Gross Study - Basics Example PSYCH 291

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH291
• Professor: Joanne Wood

Document Summary

*people who are obese are more affected by external cues to eat than people who are. *while participants filled out questionnaires they were offered crackers to eat. *researchers weighed the box of crackers before and after the session. *obese ps in the fast clock condition ate nearly twice as much as obese ps in the slow clock condition. *obese people heavily influenced by external cue of time. * normal -weight ps ate more with slow clock than with fast clock. *perhaps normal -weight ps did not want to spoil their appetites. What makes people eat food: people who are obese are more affected by external cues to eat than people who are. Same hypothesis as study 1: people who are obese are more affected by external cue of time to eat than people who are normal weight: weekdays are highly routinized. Weekday vs. weekend eating: on weekends, contact with food-related cues is unsystematic and unpredictable, obese ps .