The article Asparagus, a Love Story by Cara Laney et al was about seeing if false beliefs or false memories can alter the way that subjects in the experiment feel about foods. There were two experiments conducted, the first one involved giving the subjects false feedback about having liked a specific food as kids. Then seeing the consequences of giving them false feedback. The second experiment was about trying to replicate the results of the first experiment and to see if just seeing asparagus will make it more appealing after the false belief manipulation. Nearly half of the participants in the study were able to be convinced that as a child they loved asparagus even though originally they recalled otherwise. This resulted in the formation …show more content…
A problem I had with the study only showing a picture was that it did not really have the participants interact in real life situations. It had them only do questionnaires, assessments, or look at pictures. It did not have them actually go out and buy the food or go to an actual restaurant to see if what they stated is what they would actually do once in that particular setting. Also for both of the experiments the majority of the participants were females, there should have been at least an even number of male and female participants. They also could have used more than just asparagus to test their theory, it may be possible that it is easier to plant false beliefs or memories for some foods than it is for others. There was also no mention of whether the effects of the false belief manipulations were long term or just short term. People memories tend to not be the most reliable as this study has shown and mentioned in the beginning of the article, over time there is the possibility that they might go back to disliking asparagus. The study also mentioned that the findings of this study could help with developing healthy eating habits but the researchers did not actually test out that theory because no behavioral measures were
The author of “Dethroning the Deceitful Pork Chop” shows that, “no single food has more profoundly
It is unlikely that social consequences of false memories can be avoided. Elizabeth Loftus was intrigued to study false memories, and is perhaps personally responsible for subsequent developments throughout the history of false memories. Some of this history addresses various theories aimed at isolating how or why false memories occur. These include Source Monitoring Framework, Activation Monitoring Theory, Fuzzy Trace Theory, and strategies for persuasion which can lead to the development of false memory. Such persuasion leads to the present discussion concerning how persuasion in the judicial system has created false confessions and wrongful eyewitness testimonies, due to the Misinformation Effect.
Relevance between Food and Humans with Rhetorical Analysis In the modern industrial society, being aware of what the food we eat come from is an essential step of preventing the “national eating disorder”. In Michael Pollan’s Omnivore’s Dilemma, he identifies the humans as omnivores who eat almost everything, which has been developed into a dominant part of mainstream unhealthiness, gradually causing the severe eating disorder consequences among people. Pollan offers his opinion that throughout the process of the natural history of foods, deciding “what should we have for dinner” can stir the anxiety for people based on considering foods’ quality, taste, price, nutrition, and so on.
This is one of the reason why kids start lying to one another. Another event that occurred during the experiment is finding that parents support lies when they are “white lies.” Given a price for lying allows the child to be encouraged to lie more in the future. This concept is analogous to praising a dog for doing a good trick. Therefore, this influence of parents to encourage their kids to tell white lies encourages them to tell more lies in the future.
In the 2004 academy award nominated documentary Super Size Me, director Morgan Spurlock presents unsettling information about the health risks associated with a fast food exclusive diet (McDonald’s specifically). During this film, Morgan Spurlock uses several different field research methods to test his hypothesis and validate his findings. In one particular scene, we are shown the decomposition of McDonald’s food over a ten week span. Using observation-based research, we can clearly see how McDonald’s hamburgers and fries decay compared to hamburgers and fries lacking artificial preservatives. After a ten week period, we are shown that McDonald’s fries are seemingly unaffected.
Then the Skinner box will be discussed, finally leading to the studies of Loftus and Palmer on the link between language and memory. The role and importance of ecological validity in each body of research will be discussed and evaluated. Ecological validity is how much the
Understanding the food tasters expertise makes it easier for the reader to
This shows that they worked as a team with a specific objective of saving their friend. At the end, they all managed to save their lifes from Sid and their mission got accomplished. 4 stages of group Cycle- - Forming - Storming - Norming - Performing 1. Forming- This is the first stage of group formation.
Future studies could also try to focus more on trying to create a more serious type of false memory. Unfortunately, this would be a violation of ethic codes. For the time being the studies available will only be able to create false memories with minor things as these studies did with food and instructions. As mentioned in Bernstein and Loftus (2009), a therapist could not ethically deceive their own patients, even if it 's for their patients ' own good. Putting the idea to practice will be trickier than it
Eating Healthy Michael Pollan, a health food spokesperson, made some interesting critiques on how he believes that there is an American paradox such as, “a notably unhealthy population preoccupied with… the idea of eating healthy” (Maxfield, 442). The idea taken from Michael Pollan’s quote is that he believes the definition of healthy eating has more to do with how it is “driven by a well-funded corporate machine” (Maxfield, 442). He is also claiming that the food industry is benefiting on our lack of knowledge on how to eat properly when it comes to being healthy. In her article Food as Thought: Resisting the Moralization of Eating, Mary Maxfield directly attacked Pollan’s claims, pointing out the hypocrisy in his words because he is sharing
By quoting food experts, each notion of food appears credible, logical and well researched, whilst proceeding in a consistent
Forming - This is when individuals interact with one another initially and start to get to know each other. 2. Storming - This is the difficult part of group communication as the group struggles to understand how to interact with one another. 3.
Michael Pollan’s Escape from the Western Diet connects well with what Mary Maxfield says in her article. Both Pollan and Maxfield talk about the ways that dieting is taking over American people’s healths and causing them to become even unhealthier. In Mary Maxfield’s argument she talks about how people believe everything that diet industries say, even though they know that the information they give you is false. This connects really well with what Michael Pollan talks about in his article, which is that people know that these theories that are used for the Western diet are not accurate, but yet they still decide to use the Western diet to help them become healthier.
The Unplanned Human Experiment “Too spicy,” said Elijah, the son of Dr. Steingraber, after trying a food that some believe to be a stereotypical child’s favorite. In Steingraber’s essay, “But I Am a Child Who Does”, she writes about her accidental “human experiment”. Her experiment consists of her two children, Faith and Elijah, having a very particular food preference. Their taste perception was based solely on direct experience and was not exposed to any manipulating advertisements. However, she does not address that advertisements are righteously wrong.
Skinners experiment was standardised and controlled it made the study more reliable because there were no influences from other factors like extraneous variables/confounding variables. This shows that researchers could have compromised ecological validity for other factors that are just as important in psychological