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According to the multi-store model of memory, short-term memory is a unitary store with a very limited capacity and finite duration. Miller (1956) demonstrated that short-term memory has a capacity of 7 i...

His baseline study can be put through criticism due to the amount of ethical issues that weren't looked over. His participants could have suffered Psychological harm if they believed they had administered...

This is when a person gives a conditioned response after association a conditioned stimulus with a neutral stimulus. An example of this can be seen in Pavlov's theory with the example of the dog salivatin...

The Nature-Nurture debate centres around whether an individual's development is mainly due to their genes or environmental influences. Most psychologists agree that behaviour is a product of the interacti...

Milgrams electric shock experiment was conducted at Yale University to test obedience to authority figures. The study involved participants who self selected and were paid. When they turned up they met a ...