Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Hyperglycemia, Hypothalamus, Lesion

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Mark Cole

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Wagenstein and carlson stomach less patients still felt normal hunger and weight control. You don"t need a stomach because it isn"t where you feel hunger. Some overweight people had tumors and he thought they could be due to weight and hunger. Glucostatic theory oomura believed that diabetics should feel full and people in the mornings should feel hungry. He believed this due to hyperglycemic in diabetics and hypoglycemic in the. They didn"t, which shows that it is your behaviors that influence when you are hungry. This wasn"t true because people still eat when these levels aren"t low. Herman and mack tested college women (50% dieters and 50% non-dieters) They drank 0, 1, or 2 milkshakes and tasted ice cream and then were left alone in the room with the ice cream pails. The non-dieters ate as predicted by the set-point theory. The dieters opposed the theory and ate more then they were expected too.