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Psychology
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What were the findings of Harlow's research on maternal deprivation

Harlow made use of rhesus monkeys to study maternal deprivation and found that, when they are placed in a scary environment, the monkeys were more likely to cling to the cloth artificial monkey than the i...

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Outline the three types of long term memory and describe how they differ form one another.

Episodic- the memory of biographical events in your life. e.g. memory of your summer holiday. Semantic- the memory of general knowledge about the world. e.g. knowledge of the solar system. ...

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Outline Bowlby’s theory of maternal deprivation.

A key tenet of Bowlby's Attachment Theory was the idea of monotropy: that a child has an innate need and drive to attach to his/her primary caregiver, usually the mother. Bowlby posited that monotropy was...

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Outline two cognitive explanations for depression (6 marks).

One cognitive explanation involves Ellis’s ‘ABC Model’ (1962). Ellis explains that the key to depression lies in irrational thinking. ‘A’ represents an activating...

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What is the working memory model?

The working memory model was designed by Baddeley and Hitch, who criticised the multi store model of memory as being too unitary. The multi store model showed the short term memory as being one very simpl...

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