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Lose Weight By Buying Food With Cash
Written by Keiron WalshWritten on Monday, 29 November 2010 10:03 in Eating Behaviour Be the first to comment! Read more...
If you want to eat more healthily, pay for your shopping using cash. Apparently, using a credit or debit card to pay for your food leads to more impulsive unhealthy purchases. -
Neurotransmitter Theories of Depression
Written by Keiron WalshDuring the 1950s it was discovered that the blood pressure medication “reserpine” causes depression in some people (Ayd, 1956). Reserpine was found to lower levels of the neurotransmitter norepinephrine in the brain, which suggests that depression…Written on Thursday, 28 August 2008 12:59 in Psychopathology Be the first to comment! Read more...
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Bilingualism no big deal for brain, Kansas researcher finds
Written by News ReleaseThere are many complicated theories on how the brain processes more than one language but Mike Vitevitch found that how words sound provides enough information to distinguish which language a word belongs to....Written on Tuesday, 31 May 2011 05:00 in Psychology News Be the first to comment! Read more... -
Sleep Processes Memories
Written by Keiron WalshThe body of research showing that sleep contributes to memory consolidation continues to grow. New research has demonstrated that playing external sounds during deep sleep can improve memory for spatial tasks associated with those sounds.Written on Friday, 20 November 2009 08:21 in Cognitive Psychology Be the first to comment! Read more...
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Reliving Social Pain Is Worse Than Reliving Physical Pain
Written by Keiron WalshWe all know the famous saying: "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me," but is this proverb actually true?Written on Thursday, 28 August 2008 12:45 in Interesting Be the first to comment! Read more...
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Working Memory (Baddeley & Hitch, 1974)
Written by Keiron WalshWritten on Saturday, 15 March 2008 10:19 in Memory 18 comments Read more...
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. -
Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development
Written by Keiron WalshWritten on Saturday, 08 March 2008 15:54 in Cognitive Development 8 comments Read more...
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… -
The Multistore Model of Memory (Atkinson and Shiffrin, 1968)
Written by Keiron WalshAtkinson 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...
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AQA-A Psychology Unit 3 Options
Written by Keiron WalshIn 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...
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How to Spot a Narcissist From Their Facebook Profile
Written by Keiron WalshWritten on Tuesday, 23 September 2008 05:42 in Interesting 6 comments Read more...
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…