Carl Rogers
Carl Rogers was an extremely influential researcher in the field of humanistic psychology whose theories we will examine more closely ...
Boroditsky
The focus of Boroditsky’s study was in trying to find out if the language that we speak affects how we ...
Bodily rhythms
When we sleep there are many different influences that affect the quality and type of sleep that we get. One ...
Biological explanations of criminality
Unlike learning theories, which take a person’s life experiences into account, the biological theory maintains that it is a person’s ...
Bartlett’s war of the ghosts
It is stated that Bartlett came up with his idea of ‘War of the Ghosts’ whilst playing Chinese whispers when ...
Bartlett’s theory
Bartlett realised that memory was not a perfect system; he maintained that when people were trying to remember things, they ...
Bobo Doll Experiment
This study, carried out by Bandura and his colleagues, is an example of how social learning theory is researched. The ...
Atkinson and Shiffrin theory
The Multi-store Model of Memory, was proposed by Atkinson and Shiffrin in the 1960s in an attempt to show how ...
Activation-synthesis theory (Hobson and McCarley 1977)
Unlike other research about sleep and dreaming, Hobson and McCarley’s theory focuses specifically on the neurobiological aspects of this, in ...
Yuki et al
There is still a growing interest in cultural differences in non-verbal communication, with research trying to identify how much non-verbal ...
Sigmund Freud
Freud is a name that tends to need little introduction in psychology. His theories about mental health were groundbreaking (as ...