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Evolutionary explanations posit that our partner preferences are based on our fundamental desire to reproduce and pass on our genes. Both males and females therefore show a preference for mates who appear to...

A01(6 Marks): Treatment 1 - Systematic Desensitisation (SD) - Anxiety hierarchy – List of situations related to phobic stimulus, rated from least to most frightening. E.g. picture of stimulus= least frighten...

In A-Level psychology, the longer answer questions are looking for a critical evaluation of the evidence or explanations. Often, the marks will be weighted towards AO3, which requires you to evaluate your ev...

A weakness is that the approach is environmentally deterministic. For example, it suggests behaviours are learnt through associations made with environmental stimuli and/or the response that we get (reinforc...

The three types of long term memory (LTM) are episodic, procedural and semantic. Semantic memories are the part of the LTM that stores information or facts about the world, for example an apple is a fruit, o...