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The Authoritarian personality suggests that those with such personality are more likely to obey to certain authority figures. Key features of the Authoritarian personality include the respect for submissi...

Loftus and Palmer's study is considered a laboratory experiment as the independent variable was manipulated. A laboratory experiment examines the causal relationship between the independent variable (IV),...

Hughes believed that the original 3 mountains task used by Piaget was too difficult for children to understand - it involved them understanding what a doll saw and taking notes of different details and ov...

The behaviourist approach mainly focuses on observable events and the link between stimulus and response and none of the underlying mechanisms. For example, Pavlov only measured the responses of dogs to t...

Normative social influence (NSI) can be described as a desire to be accepted and/or liked by a group, which can lead a person to conform as this may be deemed as necessary to fit in with the group so that...