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Currently the most successful treatment for schizophrenia is the use of drugs to help balance the chemicals in the patients brain. Leading research on this particular illness has found that excess dopamin...

One assumption of the behaviourist approach is that we are born as a blank slate (known as tabula rasa) and we learn everything from the environment. This assumptions believes that all humans, male and fe...

The cognitive explanation of depression suggests that negative thoughts and belief's cause depression. Beck's cognitive triad suggests that there are three focuses of negative thinking: the self (I am st...

CBT stands for Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. The underlying principle behind it is the fact that our thoughts, emotions and behaviour and interdependent, and changing one will also determine a change in ...

Milgram was interested in why so many people can carry out inhumane acts when instructed by someone in authority, in particular the Nazi soldiers in World War 2. He questioned whether people could be held...