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In terms of biological causes of depression, family studies are used with the idea that depression runs in the family and you are more likely to develop it if a close relative has it. Gerson found that if...

An example of social research is Milgram's obedience study which investigated how far a person would obey instructions when it involved harming another individual. Participants were classified as the 'tea...

As you probably know, long-term memory (LTM) is one type of memory, however within LTM there are different types. These can be divided into; episodic, semantic and procedural LTM. The differences between ...

The working memory model was proposed by Baddeley and Hitch in 1974. They thought there were 3 different stores for short term memory; the phonological loop, the visuospatial sketchpad, and the central ex...

The process of synaptic transmission is when electrical nerve impulses, known as action potentials, travel from the dendrites of the cell (the receptor site) to the axon terminal. When these action potent...