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A key strength of Sherif's 1954 'Robber's Cave' study is that it has high validity. Sherif's experiment was set up as a two week long summer camp with participants who were not aware of the aim of the study....

A control group allows us to have a base recording that we can compare our experimental group to. A control group and an experimental group are treated in the same way except for the variable that we are man...

Zimbardo conducted the Stanford prison experiment which was, arguably, one of the most renowned pieces of research in the field of conformity. Zimbardo allocated the role of either prisoner or prison guard t...

The working memory model explains how short term memory is organised. It consists of four main components that are different by coding and capacity. One of which is the central executive which allocates task...

Eyewitness testimony is the process of interviewing witnesses to a crime to help gain evidence and facts on what happened. Misleading information is when the interviewer provides information during that inte...