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Characteristics: - Lack of long-term/future planning. Makes poor decisions and is often impulsive - Getting aggressive and frequently getting into fights - Breaking the law/ codes of civilised behaviour. Lyi...

Generalisability & participant sample: Can the results be generalised and applied to larger settings or populations? Is the participant sample small (less than 20 participants) or large (better generalis...

Psychology is the study of the mind, whereby scientists attempt to pinpoint the root cause or aetiology for underlying mechanism that prompt human or non-human behaviour. It is essential to keep this in mind...

A famous piece of research is the Stanford prison experiment by Zimbardo. He investigated how readily people wold conform to roles of prisoners and guards. He recruited US college students and randomly assig...

Evaluation for psychological studies can be done using the GRAVE method. That is firstly, G - generalisability, to what extent can the findings of this study be generalised to the general and target populati...