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PSY352: Appetite: The Psychology of Eating and Drinking
The need to eat and drink is essential to the survival of all animals. This unit examines the psychology of these activities, with a primarily human slant. In particular, the unit covers the anatomy and physiology of the whole ingestive system: what starts and stops eating; why we like and prefer some foods over others; and the psychobiology of dieting, starvation, obesity, anorexia/bulimia. The unit adopts a broad perspective, so that the impact of human food choice on health, the economy and the environment, are constantly kept in focus.
| Credit Points: | 3 |
| Contact Hours: | 3 |
| When Offered: | D2 - Day; Offered in the second half-year |
| Staff Contact(s): | Associate Professor Dick Stevenson |
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| NCCW(s): | PSY239, PSY346 |
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| Assessed As: | Graded |
| Offered By: | Department of Psychology |
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