An edition of Eating behaviour
(2010)
Eating behaviour
by Terry Dovey
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This text covers the subject of eating and food related behaviour from the perspectives of the five main areas of psychology: developmental, cognitive, social, biological and pathological. It focuses on 'normal' eating behaviour, with some links into eating disorders and intervention.
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Eating behaviour
2010, McGraw-Hill, Open University Press, McGraw Hill/Open University Press
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0335235832 9780335235834
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction : widely held assumptions and methods
2. The energy demands of the brain : central mechanisms of eating
3. Storage and digestion : peripheral mechanisms of eating
4. Learning about food : developmental aspects of eating behaviour
5. Choosing between foods : cognitive aspects of eating behaviour
6. The effect of others : social aspects of eating behaviour
7. Getting inside people's heads : restraint, emotional eating, disinhibition and their combined effects
8. Dealing with obesity : dieting and drugs
9. When eating behaviour goes wrong : anorexia nervosa, bulima nervosa and eating disorders not otherwise specified
10. Tying up loose ends : towards a combined theory of eating behaviour.
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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