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What is the difference between determinism and reductionism?

Reductionism is when complex behaviour is reduced to just one or two factors. For example, Behaviourism reduces complex learning down to just stimulus-response (e.g. classical co...

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Outline family intervention (6 marks)

Family intervention is a series of at least 10 sessions over a period of 3-12 months which involves both the patient and their family. The aim of family intervention is to improve family functioning to ma...

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According to Tulving, what are the three types of long-term memory?

Tulving stated the three divisions of long-term memory (LTM) are episodic, semantic and procedural. Episodic = memories of events, including the locations and people involved. These are recalled conscious...

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why does Badeley's study support the idea that short term memory was coded in echoic format?

Baddeley's study shows that participarts struggled to recall worlds from a list when they sounded similar, so one can assume it is because it has been coded as very similar sets of information, making the...

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What would you say is generally the ‘perfect’ model essay structure? E.g. theory mixed with evaluation or separately e.g theory first and evaluation after..?

The perfect model structure would see theory (the AO1 knowledge) being separate from evaluation, but should also show them linked to each other effectively.

For instance, when talking about the bio...

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