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The best way to remember the difference between independent and dependent variables is when you are conducting an experiment you are looking to see if one variable (the independent variable) has an effect...

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...

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 executiv...

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...

Localisation Of Function (LOF) is the theory that certain areas of the brain correspond to certain functions and reflects the notion that behaviour, emotions and thoughts originate in the brain in specifi...