PSYC 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter Module 11.1: Peer Pressure, Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Paula Barata

Document Summary

The bio, cognitive, and social processes that shape eating patterns. The major eating and weight-control problems people face. Your knowledge of hunger regulation to better understand and evaluate your own eating patterns. The role of the media on people"s body image. Motivation: concerns the physiological and psychological process underlying the initiation of behaviours that direct organisms toward specific goals. include thoughts, feelings, sensation, and bodily processes that lead to goal directed behaviour. leads to homeostasis. Homeostasis: the (cid:271)ody"s physiologi(cid:272)al p(cid:396)o(cid:272)esses that allo(cid:449) it to (cid:373)ai(cid:374)tai(cid:374) (cid:272)o(cid:374)siste(cid:374)t i(cid:374)te(cid:396)(cid:374)al states i(cid:374) (cid:396)espo(cid:374)se to the outer environment. Allostasis: motivation is not only influences by current needs, but also by the anticipation of future needs: however, other factors such as stress and body expectations are a strong influence on behaviours like eating and drinking. If they are too low, they will signal the hypothalamus that energy supplies are too low, leading to increased hunfer.