5. Obesity &
Eating Behavior
✤ 60% of Americans are
overweight. Increase risk for
hypertension, diabetes, kidney
disease, and other
✤ Biology of Overeating
✤ Some inherit / Set Point
✤ Cognitive & Sociocultural
Factors in Obesity
✤ Time & Place
6. Hunger
✤ Dieting & Hazards of Dieting
✤ Disordered Eating
✤ dieting highest among
young women
✤ Anorexia nervosa
✤ Bulimia nervosa
8. Approaches to
Motivation
✤ Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
✤ main needs met in order:
✤ physiological
✤ safety
✤ love/belonging
✤ esteem
✤ Self Actualization
9. Approaches to Motivation
✤ Self- Determination Theory
✤ Three basic needs
✤ Competence
✤ individuals feel they are able to bring about desired outcomes
✤ Relatedness
✤ need to engage in warm relations with other people
✤ Autonomy (sense of being in control of one’s life)
10. Approaches to Motivation
✤ Issues with Self-Determination Theory
✤ May not be universal (cultures vary in how they promote those
three needs)
✤ No Child Left Behind: focuses on external outcomes, thus
according to SDT, it undermines growth oriented motivations of
students and teachers
11. Approaches to
Motivation
✤ Intrinsic v Extrinsic Motivation
✤ Intrinsic: based on internal
factors such as autonomy,
competence, and
relatedness, curiosity,
challenge, effort
✤ Extrinsic: involves external
incentives such as gaining
rewards or avoid
punishment
12. Approaches to
Motivation
✤ Self-Regulation: Successful
pursuit of goals
✤ Goal Setting:
✤ specific, short term,
challenging
✤ accomplish don’t avoid
✤ Planning how and
monitoring progress are
critical points
14. Emotion
✤ both motivation and emotion
spur an individual into action
✤ Emotion is feeling or affect that
can involve physiological arousal,
conscious experience, and
behavioral expression
15. The Biology of
Emotion
✤ Arousal
✤ sympathetic nervous system
✤ fight or flight
✤ Measuring Arousal
✤ galvanic skin response
✤ polygraph test