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This is one of the most commonly asked questions when people begin to study Psychology. Psychology is the study of human behaviour. So whilst psychologists can't read exactly 'what' you are thinking, we c...

Loftus and Palmer help explain the accuracy of eyewitness testimony and whether misleading questions can have a significant effect on distorting the accuracy of an eyewitnesses' immediate recall of an eve...

In normal levels serotonin can have a calming, inhibitory effect on neural firings in the brain. However, in low levels the inhibitory effect of serotonin is removed. This results in individuals being les...

New things that are learnt can impair our ability to recall previously learnt information, for example, if you attempt to complete one task immediately after a previous one, your memory for the previous t...

Within a lab, it is easier to control for extraneous variables, meaning that it can be concluded if the dependent variable is affected by the independent variable. Also, there is high replicability as ano...