In chapter seven, many aspects of emotions and motivation were discussed and analyzed. While learning about these in class, one specific topic stood out to me. This topic was the sensation of hunger. Without food, people can not survive. Recently, however, food has become a controlling factor and has caused the increase in obesity in the human population, specifically the United States. Analyzing what causes the sensations of hunger can help to give possible reasons for the increase in obesity today. I found hunger sensations particularly interesting because it dives deeper into the causes of hunger. The chapter and lecture focused on the concept that hunger is a complex matter that can be caused by many a combination of triggers.
According to the textbook and lecture, hunger can be affected by two cues. One of these indications is external cues. External cues consist of the time of the day, the environment in which a person is in, teachings from a small age to “clean our plates”, how food is presented, and many more. In general, external cues do not necessarily mean that our bodies need nutrients. For example, the
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According to the textbook, internal cues occur when the human body is short on nutrients. An example of this is when the brain monitors glucose levels. In any case, when a person’s glucose level drops, the brain will send a signal of hunger to the person. Another cause of an internal cue for hunger is a low level of stored fats. Low levels of stored fat can cause the brain, specifically the lateral hypothalamus, to begin eating. Without these two triggers, the body will not be in balance, altering the hunger sensations and therefore changing the person’s eating habits. What I found interesting about internal cues was that a person that is morbidly obese is actually likely to feel as hungry as a small, thin person when crucial nutrients are not
Some of the take away points that I got from Body Story: Spreading Menace was that the brain is the formidable opponent due to it programmed years of habit because its send cue to set off a chain reaction of signals the trigger and rolling sensation of hunger and how the brain calculate how full the food going to be.
A Case For Tragic Optimism by Victor Frankl states “ With the increase of the imperative urge of hunger all individual differences will blur, and in their stead will appear the uniform expression of the one instilled urge.”The one urge this piece discusses is the urge to exist. The basis of human nature is to avoid mortality. All of the experiences of life will blur and all that remains is the urge to exist.
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“A Simple Matter of Hunger” narrates the life of Eleanor Wilson, foster mother to an infant with acquired immune deficiency syndrome. Monitoring Jancey is full-time work, and it involves dealing with insensitive and ignorant people, incompetent healthcare, and consistent bad news. Although the child is not her own and raising her promises never-ending heartbreak and difficult, Eleanor cares for Jancey as well as any mother can.
The hunger was earliest demonstrated in the short story Hands. In this episode the main character, Wing Biddlebaum, in forced into isolation due to a traumatic event earlier in his life. Biddlebaum was at one time a teacher in a small Pennsylvania town. He was a man who urged his students to dream, and he happened to communicate this with his hands. Eventually, a young boy, a student of Wing's took the encouragement the wrong way. As a result a wave of rage swept through the small sleepy town. Biddlebaum was beaten for the use of his hands. HE was beaten for the communication of his dreams, and for possessing a special bond with his students. The end result was the empty shell of a man afraid to share, and afraid to connect. The feat instilled within Wing Biddlebaum is best shown in a rare conversation, if that, that he had had with George Willard. Speaking of dreams, "he raised the hands...and then a look of horror swept over his face" (pg. 7 S. Anderson). Wing, communicating with his hands, had been taught to fear any alliance with others. Yet, the hunger and want s...
When a person thinks about hunger, food comes to mind. We never think of hunger as anything else. In Richard Wright's book titled "Black Boy (American Hunger)", a young boy faces many different types of hunger. He refers to the phrase "American Hunger" throughout his book. I feel that the "American Hunger" which he is referring to is the hunger to be considered an American and be treated as an equal. Throughout his life he was treated as if he were from another planet. He was always considered to be different, an outcast and a loser. He felt the need to be a part of the so-called American Culture. He wanted to be able to do what the white children did. He wanted to be able to go to school, to learn, to read, have friends, have a job; but because he was an African American he could not. This is what I will be discussing in this paper his intellectual hunger.
Hunger and poverty will always exist. Many needy nations are stuck in a black hole, in which, there is no light at the end of the tunnel. This situation could be fixed, if the poor nations had a little help or assistance. Is it morally good for the better off nations to help or support those who are in need? Who benefits from this sponsorship in the long run? Poverty-stricken nations could seek relief if the silk-stocking nations aid in supplying goods. Many of the moneyed nations are torn between helping or not those who are less fortunate. Jonathan Swift and Garrett Hardin have two very different opinions on whether to aid those who were not born into riches. Swift uses a satire for the low-income nations of eating and using offspring
lack of hunger. Thus with the help of researchers and psychologist we can look into it more
Lilienfeld, Scott O, et al. "Emotion and Motivation." Psychology from inquiry to understanding. Boston: Pearson Education, 2011. 435-438.
Neurotransmitters are responsible for sending signals to and from the brain to certain parts of the body. There are many different neurotransmitters, which have been studied that have an influence on a person’s eating inhibitory. Some of these neurotransmitters include norepinephrine, pancreatic polypeptide, galanin, opioid peptides, glumate, and gherlin.
Hunger is a term that is often defined as the physical feeling for the need to eat. However, the Hunger Artist in Kafka's A Hunger Artist places a different, more complex meaning to this word, making the Hunger Artist's name rather ironic. The hunger of the Hunger Artist is not for food. As described at the end of the essay, the Hunger Artist states that he was in fact never hungry, he just never found anything that he liked. So then, what does this man's hunger truly mean? What drives the Hunger Artist to fast for so long, if he is truly not hungry? The Hunger Artist salivates not for the food which he is teased with, nor does he even sneak food when he alone. The Hunger Artist has a hunger for fame, reputation, and honor. This hunger seems to create in the mind of the Artist, a powerfully controlling dream schema. These dreams drive the Artist to unavoidable failure and alienation, which ultimately uncovers the sad truth about the artist. The truth is that the Artist was never an artist; he was a fraudulent outcast who fought to the last moment for fame, which ultimately became a thing of the past.
Motivation and Emotion (pg. 354) both play an important part in our daily life. Motivation helps us understand why we do things a certain way or why our behaviors change unexpectedly. While emotion shows our relationships with others and our health, and making important decisions. Motivation comes from the latin word “movere” which means to move where one starts on activities until one's psychological needs are fulfilled. An example in the chapter is “when a person is relaxed in front of the television and begins to feel hungry, the physical need for food might cause the person to get up, go into the kitchen, and search for something to eat”(Ciccarelli). But, there are two different types of motivation, extrinsic and intrinsic motivation. In
In recent years a large proportion of the research on the eating behaviour has been focused on the effect which social factors have on the individual. The scenario of Esma has been use to investigate the way which social factors affect the eating habit. Esma is a normal body weight female who is in a restaurant having a dinner party with twelve people and many different meals are served across the evening, there are two things which we are trying to predict out of this scenario. Firstly how much will Esma eat compare to other people and will it be different than when eating alone, secondly if Esma has very low levels of trait empathy, will she eat differently than the first predictions. This essay attempt to investigate and predict the effect social factors have on the eating habit by analysing the evidence provided by numerous research studies.
Kessler, D. A. (2009): The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable Appetite. New York: Rodale.
Life, humanity, and culture would not exist without food. The entire animal kingdom relies on it. It fuels everything from families to industry and trade relations. It serves many practical functions, but food is more than something needed to sustain life. Humans derive different pleasures from food. Each one is a symbolic tool that enriches culture and humanity. Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin said, "The pleasures of the table belong to all times and all ages, to every country and every day. They go hand in hand with all our other pleasures, outlast them, and remain to console us for their loss."