The Role of Learning in Food Preferences
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- ROLE OF LEARNING IN FOOD PREF
- CLASSICAL CONDITIONING
- Flavour-flavour learning = we develop a pref for a new food because of an association with a flavour we already like.
- OPERANT CONDITIONING
- Children are often directly reinforced for food pref by parents.
- They provide rewards for eating certain foods, in form of encouragement, praise and punishment.
- CC is more powerful form of food preference learning because hard to establish pref using rewards.
- They provide rewards for eating certain foods, in form of encouragement, praise and punishment.
- Children are often directly reinforced for food pref by parents.
- SLT
- Adaptive function - ensures children eat foods that are safe because others eat them without harmful effects.
- Children readily acquire food pref of role models they observe eating certain foods.
- As children get older, other models outside of family become important.
- Parents food pref have powerful effects on children, gatekeepers of their childs eating.
- Explains social influences in terms of modelling and imitation.
- As children get older, other models outside of family become important.
- Children readily acquire food pref of role models they observe eating certain foods.
- Marked by fun related themes promoted with young characters and older children to identify
- Young people who watch moderate amount of TV see number of ads for foods considered unhealthy.
- Adaptive function - ensures children eat foods that are safe because others eat them without harmful effects.
- CULTURE INFLUENCES
- Associate foods with happy and secure experiences, linked to occasions.
- Culture determines the food we put on the table.
- CULTURAL NORMS - attitudes towards what consists of a 'proper meal'. E.g. older gens ensure meat and two veg.
- Paul Rozin 1984 - CI are single most reliable predictor of food pref.
- CLASSICAL CONDITIONING
- Because of our innate preferences for sweetness, we learn to prefer foods once sugar is added to them.
- According to flavour-flavour learning principles, this association eventually leads to liking the new food on its own.
- Children are often directly reinforced for food pref by parents.
- They provide rewards for eating certain foods, in form of encouragement, praise and punishment.
- CC is more powerful form of food preference learning because hard to establish pref using rewards.
- They provide rewards for eating certain foods, in form of encouragement, praise and punishment.
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