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What were Powell and Khan's results which identify how cultural influences such as ethnicity affects attitudes towards eating behaviours? (1) (AO1) |
• white women were more prone to have body dissatisfaction and disorders such as bulimia than Asian or Black women |
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When Ball and Kenardy studied 14,000 Australian women of various ethnic origin, what did results show about cultural influence? (1) (AO1) |
• the longer they had spent in Austrila, the more they reported eating attitudes similar to Australian born women • acculturation effect |
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Considering the cultural influence of social class, what did Dornbusch et al find when surveying 7000 American adolescents? (1) (AO1) |
• higher class individuals had a greater desire to be thin and were more likely to be dieting to achieve this, than were lower class individuals |
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What correlational evidence did Goode et al find with higher class females attitudes towards food? (1) (AO1) |
• Positive correlation between income and healthy eating |
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What did Mumford et al find when comparing Asian and White school girls to weaken Powell and Khan's research? (1) (AO2) (CI) |
• Asian school girls more likely to have body dissatisfaction and eating disorders than white girls |
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What did Striegel-Moore et al find to refute Powell and Khan's research into ethnicity? (1) (AO2) (CI) |
• there was more evidence for a 'drive for thinness' among black girls than among white girls |
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What did Story et al find to refute Dornbusch's evidence? (1) (AO2) (CI) |
• Story et al found that higher social class was related to greater satisfaction with weight and lower rates of weight control behaviour |
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Why are there problems with generalising results? (2) (AO2) (CI) |
• as studies are from clinical populations (people with bulimia), some sub clinical (with certain disordered behaviours) and some non clinical
• this makes it difficult to generalise and to draw valid conclusions about causal factors |
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How does Stefansson et al's results of Copper Inuit's disliking the taste of sugar support cultural influences? (1) (AO2) (CI) |
• due to Copper Inuit's living in isolation from other people • this shows how cultures may influence eating habits and preferences • but also the cross cultural preference for sugar may not exist |
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What did Rozin et al suggest about the cultural bias in research? (3) (IDA) (CI) |
• Americans are preoccupied with health issues related to food • French associate food with pleasure
• therefore the measurement of attitudes towards food and eating behaviour in one culture tells us little about attitudes in other cultures |
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What did Wegner find to suggest how mood influences binge eating behaviour? (1) (AO1) |
• people who binged had low mood before and after binge eating |
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How did anxiety influence individuals with bulimia nervosa? (1) (AO1) |
• They said that before a binge eating episode they felt feelings of anxiousness |
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What did Garg et al's observation of food preference show how low mood causes individuals to comfort eat? (3) (AO1) |
• ppts made to watch either an upbeat movie or a depressing one • Happy ppts chose healthy foods • whilst sad ppts went for the short term pleasure of junk food |
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How does Parker et al's evidence of comfort eating chocolate highlight the weakness of presuming comfort eating is cause by low mood? (2) (AO2) (M) |
• Parker found that chocolate, if used repeatedly, is more likely to prolong a negative mood than to alleviate it
• this challenges the view that low mood causes comfort eating, because comfort eating may not be that effective in overcoming low mood |
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How does research into eating behaviour show gender bias? (1) (IDA) |
• research focuses purely on women and therefore lacks population validity |
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How is the role of free will not factored in explanations of attitudes to food? (1) (IDA) |
• although culture and mood influences attitudes, there are always people who are unaffected • therefore highlighting how free will also plays a role in shaping attitudes |