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Does nationality affect relationships? Cultural Variations of Attachment - Psychology Revision Video
This video is the ninth installment of our Psychology Revision Series to prepare you for your exams with exactly the right information that you need to know.
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Animal Studies of Attachment (Lorenz and Harlow) - Attachment - Psychology A-Level Revision Tool
This video is the fourth installment of our Psychology A Level Revision Series to prepare you for your exams with exactly the right information that you need to know.
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Stanley Milgram's Obedience Experiment (1961)
Learn about Stanley Milgram's landmark 1961 experiment on obedience to authority. Also known as the electric shock experiment.
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Eye Witness Testimony - Loftus & Palmer (1974) Car Crash Experiment - Cognitive Psychology
Elizabeth Loftus has contributed a huge body of work to Psychology on the topic of eye witness testimony. In this video, we explore why our memory isn't always as good as we think it is, and what implications this can have on eye witness...
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What are REPEATED MEASURES, INDEPENDENT GROUPS and MATCHED PAIRS? Experimental Design in Psychology
Experimental designs make a huge impact on the validity of an experiment's results. In this video, we explore the three main types of experimental design used in Psychology experiments: 1) Repeated Measures 2) Independent Groups 3)...
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What is Intelligence? Three Influential Psychology Theories
The question of what intelligence actually is has intrigued Psychologists and Philosophers for thousands of years. We use intelligence as a measure of people's abilities and potential in day-to-day life, but how many of us have actually...
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The History of Psychology in Less Than 5 Minutes - From Wundt to Today | History of Science
How did psychology start? This video outlines the history of psychology, from its origins in Germany with the work of Wilhelm Wundt, through into Functionalism (William James), past Freud and his Psychodynamic approach, onto Behaviourism...
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What's the difference between INTERNAL and EXTERNAL VALIDITY?
Validity is a key concept in research methods. It can be broken down into two umbrella categories: internal validity and external validity. 1) Internal validity considers factors within the design of the experiment. 2) External validity...
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Do you need two parents? Bruno Bettelheim (1964) and Communal Parenting
This video explores a classic observational study of non-traditional parenting. Bettelheim (1964) spent 7 weeks on a Kibbutz studying communal parenting.
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Can a baby's temperament tell you something about their future? Temperamental Permanence
It was the Ancient Greeks who first started talking about temperament. They put temperamental differences down to predominant body fluids. After a hiatus of more than 1000 years, modern-day Psychologists have returned to the question of...
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False Recall ... Why You Probably Imagined It - Cognitive Psychology - Memory
Memory is a fickle friend and so much of what we think we remember actually never happened. This video introduces a series of fascinating psychology studies into false recall - use these studies to enhance your essays on the reliability...
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5 Things That Changed Weather Forecasting Forever
Our ability to predict the weather, though still imperfect, would astound our ancestors. And decades of improvements in weather satellite technology, driven by teams of fiercely dedicated scientists and engineers, have made that...
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⚠️ Four Ways to Define Psychological Abnormality ⚠️ Abnormal Psychology ⚠️ Psychopathology
Abnormal is a word with a lot of stigma about it in general conversation. In psychology, it's used with specific meanings. This video outlines four criteria by which someone might be considered to be functioning abnormally.
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COGNITIVE REASONS FOR WHY WE FORGET: Interference and Retrieval Failures
Why do people forget things? Could it be that the memory never made it to Long Term Memory and therefore doesn't exist? Or is it due to a retrieval failure - it's somewhere in there but you can't access it right now?
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Paltering: The Art of Lying Truthfully - Rogers et al. (2016)
Everybody lies. However there are different types of lying. This video explores research on "paltering" - lying by telling the truth. This intriguing form of lying can be perceived as the most unethical, and can lead to significant...
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🥤Addicted to soft drinks? An introduction to addiction in 6 minutes 🥤 Psychology
When my friend Emma said she was addicted to Pepsi Max, the first thing I did was laugh. But then I looked into it and realised that Western societies in Europe and America may well have a fizzy drink addiction problem! So what is...
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Why is it dangerous to drive on the phone? The effects of phones on safety - Applied Psychology
We've all been told that it's dangerous to drive whilst on the phone, but what's the evidence to back this up? It turns out that not only is it dangerous to text and talk on a handheld mobile phone, it's equally dangerous to chat with...
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KOHLBERG'S THEORY OF MORAL DEVELOPMENT - Developmental Psychology
Inpsired by Piaget's constructivist stages, Lawrence Kohlberg set about discovering the stages of moral development. He uncovered three levels, which he subdivided into six stages of moral development.
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How Babies Form Attachments - Schaffer & Emerson
Human babies take a longer time to form attachments than other animals. This video introduces you to Schaffer and Emerson's (1964) four stages of attachment - based on their classic observational study of 60 children in Glasgow, Scotland.
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Minority Influence - Social Influence - Psychology A-Level Revision Tool
This video is the second installment of our Psychology A Level Revision Series to prepare you for your exams with exactly the right information that you need to know.
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The Strange Situation - Mary Ainsworth (1969)
Possibly the most famous experimental paradigm for exploring attachment in infants - Mary Ainsworth's (1969) Strange Situation places an infant in eight scenarios to observe their attachment behaviours.
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Cognitive Psychology explained in less than 5 minutes
In the middle of the 20th Century, Psychology transformed thanks to the Cognitive Revolution. So what is Cognitive Psychology, and what is its story from the 1960s to today?
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🧠 Functional Fixedness and 5 ways to beat it 📚 Cognitive Bias 📚 Cognitive Psychology
Cognitive biases are little tricks that our mind automatically plays on us. They are clever shortcuts that help us get through the day with the limited mental resources we have, but sometimes they can leave us in sticky situations....
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Locus of Control explained in 5 mins 🕹️ Who's in control of your life? 🕹️ Cognitive Psychology
Do you take the credit when things go well for you? Is it your fault when things go wrong? Or are you a feather in the wind, guided through life by the great, mysterious other? These questions are at the root of a psychological concept...