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Evaluate the use of laboratory research in psychology, providing examples from core studies (4).

One strength of using laboratories is that they are highly controlled environments. For example, in Milgram's study into obedience to authority, the behaviour of the experimenter can be controlled, by having...
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Define 'psychotic symptom' and 'unusual perceptual experience', and outline the main differences between them.

Psychotic symptoms and unusual perceptual experiences (UPEs) are generally considered to be two dichotomous phenomena. Psychotic symptoms are characterised by hallucinations (perception of stimuli that does ...
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Explain two differences between procedural memory and episodic memory (4)

Due to this only being a 4 mark question, there is no need to include a lot of waffle. There are two marks for each explanation. Procedural memory is part of the long-term memory, this is responsible for ess...
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Explain two differences between procedural and episodic memory

Procedural memories are subjected to the unconscious mind and can not be explained verbally (non-declarative) they are concerned with how to do something and not with the rules of what to do; whereas episodi...
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briefly outline and evaluate one research study into the evolutionary causes of aggression (4 marks)

In a 1988 study, Daly and Wilson propose that marital aggression can be explained as an adaptive response. They suggest that the evolutionary desire to ensure the propagation of one's own DNA has resulted in...
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