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Eggs, butter, milk -- memory is not just a shopping list
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Often, the goal of science is to show that things are not what they seem to be. But now, in an article which will be published in an upcoming issue of Perspectives on Psychological Science, a…

Written on Monday, 23 May 2011 05:00 in Psychology News Be the first to comment! Read more...
Monkey's Can Recognise Themselves In A Mirror (Video)
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It was previously thought that humans and chimpanzees were the only primates that were self aware. New research, however, has found that monkeys are able to recognise themselves in a mirror.

Written on Thursday, 30 September 2010 15:44 in Interesting Be the first to comment! Read more...
'The Potential to Modify the Course of Parkinson's Disease'
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During a three-day forum, "One Mind for Research Forum," May 23 through May 25 in Boston, leading scientists will share the latest research on debilitating neurodegenerative and psychiatric diseases such as post-traumatic stress disorder, Alzheimer's disease,…

Written on Friday, 20 May 2011 05:00 in Psychology News Be the first to comment! Read more...
Female Brain Cells are Better at Surviving Starvation than Male Brain Cells
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After 24 hours of starvation, neurons from females (left panel) mobilize free fatty acids and form lipid droplets (bright green), keeping them alive. In contrast, neurons from males (right panel) begin eating themselves from the inside…

Written on Monday, 19 January 2009 19:27 in Interesting Be the first to comment! Read more...
Making the Left Choice
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Apparently, if you are right handed you will unconsciously associate good things with the right hand side of space and bad things with the left hand side (or vice versa if you are left handed). According…

Written on Friday, 11 March 2011 13:14 in Interesting Be the first to comment! Read more...

Working Memory (Baddeley & Hitch, 1974)
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Baddely and Hitch believed that the STM store in the Multistore Model was too simplistic: they thought that short term memory was not a passive store, but several active processes that manipulate information.

Written on Saturday, 15 March 2008 10:19 in Memory 18 comments Read more...
Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development
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Piaget believed that there is a qualitative as well as a quantitative difference in the intelligence of young children, compared with older children and adults. There is a quantitative difference because adults have more knowledge of…

Written on Saturday, 08 March 2008 15:54 in Cognitive Development 8 comments Read more...
The Multistore Model of Memory (Atkinson and Shiffrin, 1968)
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Atkinson and Shiffrin's Multistore Model of Memory suggests that there are three separate memory stores, Sensory Memory (sometimes called the 'sensory store'), Short Term Memory (STM) and Long Term Memory (LTM). Each store has a different…

Written on Thursday, 28 August 2008 09:46 in Memory 13 comments Read more...
AQA-A Psychology Unit 3 Options
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In Unit 3 of the AQA-A Psychology Specification, candidates must develop knowledge, understanding and skills of analysis and evaluation in relation to three topics selected from the following:

Written on Sunday, 31 May 2009 15:49 in Unit 3 Be the first to comment! Read more...
How to Spot a Narcissist From Their Facebook Profile
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Narcissism is a personality disorder, characterised by "a pervasive pattern of grandiosity, need for admiration, and a lack of empathy" (DSM IV-TR). Narcissists have an exaggerated sense of self-importance, believe they are special and unique, have…

Written on Tuesday, 23 September 2008 05:42 in Interesting 6 comments Read more...