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Outline and evaluate research into the effects of leading questions on the accuracy of eyewitness testimony

A01: Loftus and Palmer (1974). Investigated how misleading information can alter memory post event. They asked participants to estimate the speed of two cars, changing cues provided in the question....

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Describe and explain the role of animal studies in attachment, provide an example

A01: Harlow’s Rhesus monkeys (1958). Harlow reared infant monkeys in isolation away from their mothers, causing privation, and put them in cages with two surrogate mothers. One was wire and a bottle...

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Psychologists carry out research into the effectiveness of SSRIS in treating depression. A possible ethical issue which may arise during the study is protection of participants from harm. How could the psychologist deal with this issue? - 4 marks

Participants must be reminded before throughout and after the study that they have the right to withdraw their data from the findings if they are showing signs of distress. (2)

When pubishing socia...

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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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How does behavioural psychology use classical conditioning to attempt to explain the development of phobias?

Behavioural Psychologists such as Skinner and Pavlov view all aspects of human experience as the result of complex conditioning. They explain phobias as a result of classical. Classical conditioning occur...

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