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'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...

Asch's conformity study found that group size and the influence of confederates changed the belief and behaviour of the naive participant as 75 percent of participants conformed to the wrong answer in the...

There is supporting evidence for the role of sexual selection as a result of anisogamy. Buss et al (1989) carried out a survey of 10,000 adults in ...