Just One More Serving Please Lab

(Video Activity: Hunger and Eating) Environmental cues that trigger people to eat:

All of these choices are true.

(Video Activity: Hunger and Eating) Which of the following statements is MOST accurate?

Eating is a complex interaction of factors

(How Would You Know if Larger Dinner Plates Make People Fat?) As one of your confounding variables, you chose whether participants had recently completed a difficult exercise activity. Why did you select this as a possible confounding variable?

It might explain eating behavior independent of plate size.

(How Would You Know if Larger Dinner Plates Make People Fat?) Which of the following statements is TRUE, based on what you learned from this activity?

Larger dinner plates cause people to eat more food.

(PsychSim6: Hunger and the Fat Rat) Destruction of the Ventromedial Hypothalamus leads to

Overeating

(PsychSim6: Hunger and the Fat Rat) Stimulation of the Lateral Hypothalamus leads to

Overeating

(Video Activity: Eating and Weight Gain: A Role for Fidgeting) Which statement best summarizes the conclusion of the study?

Simple body movement can help control body weight

(Video Activity: Hunger and Eating) ______ is/are the main source of the body's energy.

Simple sugar glucose

(Concept Practice: Homeostasis and Body Chemistry) In this temperature regulation system, which component detects that an imbalance has occurred?

Thermostat

(How Would You Know if Larger Dinner Plates Make People Fat?) Why did you choose to use an Experimental design?

To establish a cause-and-effect relationship between plate size and eating behavior

(PsychSim6: Hunger and the Fat Rat) Destruction of the Lateral Hypothalamus leads to

Undereating

(PsychSim6: Hunger and the Fat Rat) Stimulation of the Ventromedial Hypothalamus leads to

Undereating

(How Would You Know if Larger Dinner Plates Make People Fat?) According to the results of your experiment, people would eat ________ candy if they used a bowl that was ________ than the one they normally use.

more; larger

(Video Activity: Eating and Weight Gain: A Role for Fidgeting) Data indicated that Jeff's fidgeting accounted for _____ of his calorie burn.

one-half (1/2)