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Evaluate one study into the stages of attachment. 4 marks.

Schaffer and Emerson's study is true to real life as the children were observed by their mothers in their own home, therefore there was less demand characteristics than there would be if the study was conduc...
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Give one limitation of the cognitive approach to understanding behaviour.

One limitation of the cognitive psychology approach to understanding behaviour is that it lacks ecological validity. Common paradigms and tasks utilised by cognitive psychologists (e.g. the Stroop task) are ...
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Outline two explanations/theories for forgetting.

Retrieval failure (due to absence of cues) encoding specificity principle (Tulving and Thomson)context-dependent forgetting; context at encoding and retrieval do not matchAbernethy - student study; familiari...
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Outline what is meant by the term ‘validity’ in psychology. What problems may psychologists have when they attempt to make their studies high in validity?

We can talk about two types of validity in psychology. The first is external validity, which means the extent to which the results and findings of the study can be generalized to real life. The second, inter...
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Briefly outline Milgram's study on obedience (6 marks)

The aim of Milgram's study was to investigate the effect of an authority figure on behaviour. Milgram had the naive participant meet with the confederate and gave them a rigged draw so that the naive partici...
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