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Psychology
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Explain/describe the Humanistic Approach.

The Humanistic Approach aims to the replace the Behaviourist and Psychodynamic approaches to human behaviour. It was championed by Abraham Maslow who wanted psychology to be less deterministic and more ho...

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Describe the three different types of long term memory.

Eposodic memory is memory for events we have personally experienced. For example, remembering what you got for your 8th birthday present. Eposodic memory is declarative.

Semantic memory is the memo...

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Explain at least one criticism of studies in which the multi-store explanation of memory was investigated.

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A key issue with research into the multi-store model of memory is the lack of external validity. The participants are given are nonsense syllables to memorise, these would not normally ...

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What is the difference between positive reinforcement and negative reinforcement?

Positive reinforcement refers to the process by which we are more likely to repeat a behaviour if it results in pleasant consequences. Negative reinforcement on the other hand refers to being more likely ...

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Explian how aversion therapy can be used to treat unwanted behaviour such as smoking

Aversion therapy is where an unpleasant event accompanies the behavior that needs to be changed, so that the individual associates this behaviour with the behaviour and no longer does it. In the case of s...

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