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While procedural memory is mainly related to motor skills, episodic memory stores memories of life events meaning they have different purposes. Another difference is that episodic memory is declarative me...

In our everyday lives we experience a lot of HUGE amounts of sensory information that we have to process so we can understand what is going on around us. It's a very substantial task!! Th...

The behaviourist approach has four main assumptions. The first being is that all behaviours are learnt from the environment. The second assumption is that animals and humans learn in the same way which ha...

This model was devised by Atkinson and Shiffron and outlines the three permanent structures of memory to be the sensory register, short-term and long term memory. Each of these structures differ in their ...

A type 1 error arises when after an experiment, the null hypothesis is rejected even when it is true and the alternative hypothesis is accepted. This can be referred to as a false positive as a significan...