Search over 10,000 free study notes

The brain is made up of structures alled neurons, which acts processed and sends information through electircal impulses. Because neurons do not touch eachother, hese electrical impulses are sent through ...

'Discuss' questions are normally worth either 12 or 24 marks. An example may be 'Discuss neural mechanisms in aggression'. Disuss questions should always start with describing something e...

A meta analysis is a paper that rather than conducting independent research analyses the conclusions of several other papers. This is particularly useful to uncover tendencies within the field of psycholo...

One study which investigated into the relationship between stress-related illness and the immune system was carried out by Kiecolt-Glaser et al (1984). They used medical students to look into whether shor...

Validity refers to the extent to which a test measures what it sets out to measure. For example, a study may have strong internal validity if there is a causal relationship between the independent variabl...