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The dopamine hypothesis is the theory that schizophrenia is caused by too much dopamine in the brain. The theory states that due to dopamine being a neurotransmitter that instigates the firing of neurons in ...

To understand type 1 and 2 errors you have to first understand what p values are. A p value is the probability of finding a result. In psychology, the significance level used is p=0.05 such that if a hypothe...

Milgram’s study in 1963 aimed to explore the idea of obedience to see whether people would blindly follow orders from an authority figure. He gathered 40 participants aged 20 to 50 who volunteered from an ad...

The working memory model is a framework put forward by Alan Baddeley to describe how human's store and manipulate information they are currently working with. In it's original form it outlined an executive c...

One biological treatment for depression is drug therapy – the use of antidepressant drugs to alleviate the symptoms of depression. Monoamine oxidase inhibitors work by inhibiting the activity of monoamine ox...