PSYCH 1XX3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Serving Size, Bacon, Online Dating Service
14 Sep 2016
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Offer kids a marshmallow but if they wait they will get 2 marshmallows. 30 years later they checked upon the children. If you were a child who showed high restraint, you had an advantage/benefit compared to those with low restraint. Want to evolve taste mechanisms to aid in our survival. A few years ago agriculture arose and our access to calories increased. Flood of reward which triggers the same chemical reactions in the brain that work during drug use. Introduced electric shock when eating fatty foods: group 2 gave up, group 3 continued to eat the fatty foods regardless of the electric shock. Rewarding people that eat these foods and get them hooked. Easy access to these food products at the grocery stores. Researchers alter food products to make them addictive. In developed countries more overweight people then underweight. In developing countries more underweight people then overweight. If one is relying on external factors more likely to be over weight.
