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Although research into reciprocity uses well-controlled procedures, it is hard to know what is actually going on from the perspective of the baby. Gratier observed that many children display the same faci...

Localisation was first discovered in the 1800's by physicians Broca and Wernicke who did autopsies on patients who had several language difficulties before their deaths. Localisation is defined as specifi...

A good example is smoking. Most people know that smoking is bad for their health, however, they still smoke. This separation between beliefs and behaviour is cognitive dissonance. It is often described as...

The electric transmission reaches the presynaptic terminal and action potential then causes these vesicles to fuse with the presynaptic membrane before they are released to diffuse across the synapse. The...

Classical conditioning refers to a type of learning in which a biologically reactive stimulus is paired with a stimulus which was previously neutral. The result of this process is learning a response to a...