Stanford Prison Experiment
In what is now commonly referred to as the ‘Stanford Prison Experiment’ the researchers wanted to find out more about ...
Sperry study
As we have seen throughout this unit, the different hemispheres of the brain appear to be responsible for different functions ...
Social learning theory of criminality
Social learning theory explains behaviour in terms of how it can be observed in other people and then repeated by ...
Social issues
A society simply refers to a group of people who live together in a group. In psychology, research on these ...
Sleep disorders
Although sleep is crucial to human functioning, some individuals find that they have a sleep disorder, which means that their ...
Research methods
Experiments are widely used in psychology because they enable the researcher to collect data using various techniques, which should be ...
Reliability and validity
Reliability refers to how consistent the outcomes of research are, which means that similar results are found when similar research ...
Relationships between language and thinking
It is difficult to try and ascertain what comes first in terms of thought and language. Do we need a ...
Rehabilitation
Some offenders who are sentenced to time in prison or to carry out community service may also be involved in ...
Reductionism and reductionist
Both of these terms refer to how behaviour and experiences are explained by a single factor, at the expense of ...
Psychology in modern times
Psychology today refers to a study of human mind and behaviour and has been developed over approximately 200 years. It ...
Piliavin et al.’s good samaritanism
In response to the murder of Kitty Genovese, many psychologists became interested in the behaviour of bystanders, when it became ...
Piaget’s theory
Piaget was originally a biologist but moved into the study of development of children’s understanding through observing, talking to and ...
Piaget and Inhelder
Piaget and Inhelder were two researchers worked with children and looked into how they perceived space and the characteristics of ...
Multi-store Model of Memory
There are lots of studies that support the Multi-store Model of Memory and the one by Peterson and Peterson is ...