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Psychologists have claimed that some studies of eyewitness accounts lack ecological validity. Explain why these studies might lack ecological validity. (3 marks)

Eyewitness accounts lack ecological validity as they do not take in the real world, like they would in an actual crime scene. They may take place in a laboratory setting. Therefore, their findings cannot be ...
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What is conformity?

Social influences Conformity can be regarded as one form of social influence which describes the tendency to align ones attitudes, beliefs, and behaviours with a group. Thus, it can be regarded as a 'majorit...
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Describe the Multi-Store Model of Memory (Atkinson & Shiffrin, 1968)

The Multi-Store Model of Memory proposes that there are 3 parts of the memory system: Sensory Register (SM) – environmental stimulus from your senses causes information to come in to the sensory register, as...
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How does the contemporary study at to our knowledge and understanding of the psychodynamic area?

What did the old study teach us: Freud taught us how our unconcious can cause disorders such as phobia's, through implementing defence mechanisms to protect our ego, this meant that displacement and projecti...
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Explain/describe the Humanistic Approach.

The Humanistic Approach aims to the replace the Behaviourist and Psychodynamic approaches to human behaviour. It was championed by Abraham Maslow who wanted psychology to be less deterministic and more holis...
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