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 Health psychology to explore the reasons and psychological theories for the rise in drug addiction. There is the nature argument (derived from the biological approach) which states that genes play an imp...

Ecological validity is the extent to which research, or findings from an experiment, can be applied to real-life settings - i.e. the "real world".

Lab studies often lack ecologi...

When doing psychology exam papers, make sure to analyse on the methods and methodologies of studies rather than the procedures of studies. In short answer questions (SAQs), you will have to outline, ex...

Both are types of conformity, which is when we change our behaviour to fit in with the majority group. The main distinction between compliance and internalisation is whether or not our...

Lab studies allow for high control over extraneous variables.

For example, in a simple experiment to test which paper aeroplane flies the furthest, the advantage of doing the study inside...