PSY 220 Study Guide - Final Guide: Conditioned Taste Aversion, Lateral Hypothalamus, Taste

• School: University of Miami
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 220
• Professor: Professor Hurwitz

Document Summary

Neurobiological regulation of thirst, body temperature, and body weight. Bmi: over or under estimates fat deposition in certain populations. Regulating food intake it pertains in part to the process of hunger leading to satiety and the cycle repeats. Hunger is linked and can be influenced by learning. On of the most powerful forms of learning is the conditioned taste aversion paradigm, which is a classical conditioning paradigm. One of the most powerful influences on hunger and eating is stress. For some people stress induces them to eat, eating food provides comfort which diminishes aversiveness of stress (provides comfort). One of the most powerful signals that tells us to stop eating is the fullness of our stomach: the stretch receptors in the stomach satiety. Satiety: oral factors mediated through taste receptors in your tongue and through the gustatory pathways in your brain stem and cerebral cortex, oral factors.