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A Level: What's the difference between 'reliability' and 'validity'?

This question slips up a lot of students as the two are easily mistaken for one another. We talk about Reliability and Validity when we are critiquing a research method. We consider them when looking at how ...
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Outline and evaluate the diathesis-stress model of schizophrenia

The Diathesis Stress model of schizophrenia is part of the interactionist approach that see’s schizophrenia developing due to an interaction between the biological (diathesis) and the environmental (stress) ...
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Outline two assumptions of the Biological Approach to understanding human behaviour.

The Biological Approach to understanding human behaviour has many assumptions, two of which I will outline. The first of these is the assumption that behaviour and thought are linked to the structure of the ...
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Outline the different stages of the Multi-store model of memory

Firstly, information enters the memory, via the senses, from the environment, into the sensory memory . If this information is paid attention too, it is transfered to the Short term memory. This memory store...
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Briefly outline two of the ethical issues around Bandura's (1961) study on imitation of models.

An ethical issue can be a positive or a negative feature of the research which takes into account or goes against ethical guidelines Consent: the children cannot give informed consent and the parents weren't...
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