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What is a flashbulb memory?

Flashbulb memories are extremely detailed and vivd recollections of a particularly memoriable or extraordinary event. Brown and Kulik suggested that the emotion we feel during these extordinary events activa...
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What is meant by the terms nominal, ordinal, interval and ratio data and why is it important to know the difference between the four terms?

Knowing the difference between nominal, ordinal, interval and ratio data is important because these influence the way in which you can analyse data from experiments. For example, when data is collected from ...
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Discuss the nature nurture debate in Psychology?

Nature : behaviour is heredity. Nurture : behaviour is caused by the environment, experience and learning. Interactionist approach: the belief that both nature and nurture are essential to any behaviour. A k...
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What's the best structure for an essay?

In A-level Psychology the strucure of the essay serves as a major component as to how many marks you will recieve. The key structure is as usual an introduction to give a brief background on the topic of int...
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What is the difference between reliability and validity?

Reliability is about whether the same result would be found if the experiment was repeated. An experiment must be replicable if it is to be reliable. One way to remember this is 'reliability requires replica...
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