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One easy way to remember how to evaluate is the acronym MERIT (Method, Ethics, Real world application, Individual Differences, Theory). We could try approaching Zimbardo's prison study from these perspect...

The two classification systems which are used to classify dysfunctional behaviours are the ‘Diagnostic Statistics Manual’ (DSM-IV), which is used in America and the ‘International Classification of Disord...

Phobia refers to a mental health condition where the irrational fear and anxiety is performed. Psychologists have develop a variety approaches of treatment of this anxiety disorder including Systematic De...

Procedural memory is part of the long-term memory which is responsible for knowing how to do things i.e. memories of motor skills (for example, riding a bike). Episodic memory, on the other hand, is respo...

Proposed by Baddeley and Hitch in the 1970s following a series of dual-task experiments, the working memory model (or the multi-store model) comprises 4 slave systems: the central executive, the phonologi...