Behavioral Psychology

• Behavioral Approach
  The behavioral approach explained: Introduction to the branches of behaviorism in psychology, assumptions of the approach and an evaluation.
  

• Fight or Flight Response
  How the Fight-or-Flight response explains stress.
  

• Aversion Therapy
  Aversion therapy uses the behavioral approach principles that new behavior can be 'learnt' in order to overcome addictions, obsessions or, as demonstrated in Kubrick film A Clockwork Orange, violent behavior.
  

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Biological Psychology

• Evaluation of the Biological Approach
  Can the Biological Approach explain our behavior? Decide for yourself with the advantages and drawbacks of this approach.
  

• Lobotomy
  Can removing parts of the brain via a lobotomy cure mental illnesses? Read an evaluation of this controversial treatment.
  

• Brain Explorer
  Discover what each part of your brain does and how it functions with the new interactive Brain Explorer.
  

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Body Language Reading

• Eye Reading (Body Language)
  What someone's eyes can tell you about what they're thinking.
  

• Body Language and How to Read it
  Master the art of reading body language with this exclusive online course
  

• Telling the truth from Body Language
  How to tell if someone is telling the truth from body language 'tells'.
  

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Cognitive Psychology

• Cognitive Approach (Psychology)
  Introduction to the cognitive approach in psychology. Explanation and evaluation of this approach.
  

• Psychology Reading Test
  Take the psychology reading test and see what cold reading could say about you
  

• Psychology or 'Cold' Reading Explained
  What is cold reading and what's the psychology behind it?
  

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Developmental Psychology

• Developmental Psychology
  Overview of developmental psychology, including related theories and an evaluation.
  

• Attachment Theory
  Introduction to attachment theory in developmental psychology, including Bowlby and Ainsworth's contributions, evaluation and criticisms of attachment theory.
  

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Dream Psychology & Interpretation

• Why do we dream?
  We only remember as few as 5% of our dreams, but do they have a role beyond surreal experiences during the night?
  

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Psychology of Emotions

• Emotion Guide
  Why do people and animals experience emotions, and what makes us experience different types of emotions. Ian Heath looks at emotional states, the link between the sub-conscious and our feelings.
  

• Love and Emotion: How Love Happens
  A look at the types of love in relationships between partners, parents and family members, and how gender can affect the like or love we feel for best friends and partners.
  

• Keys to a Good Relationship: Types of Love
  Find out what makes a successful relationship.
  

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Freudian Psychology

• Freudian Personality Type Test
  What's your personality type? Find out with this test.
  

• Evaluation of Freud
  Advantages and criticism of Freudian theory.
  

• Psychosexual theory
  Freud's dubious reputation for sexually-oriented theories on our behaviour was confounded by his theory of psychosexual development.
  

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Influence & Personality Psychology

• Authoritarian Personality
  How Theodor Adorno's F-scale aimed to identify fascism and authoritarian personality.
  

• Handedness
  What makes us left handed? Evolution from war, brain hemispheres or something else.
  

• Zimbardo's Stanford Prison Experiment
  Explanation of Zimbardo's Stanford prison experiment, how it was conducted and what we can learn from it.
  

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Psychology Issues

• AS Psychology Revision
  Psychology revision for AS Level students.
  

• Psychology Articles Index
  Full psychology articles and topics index covered on Psychologist World
  

• Biological Approach
  Overview of the Biological Approach in psychology, including differentiation from other approaches and evaluation.
  

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Memory Psychology

• Craik & Tulving (1975) Levels of Processing
  Craik & Tulving wanted to test whether the level of processing affected how well we remember information. Read an explanation and evaluation of this research.
  

• Memory Test
  Test your short-term memory with this online feature.
  

• Craik & Lockhart (1972) Levels of Processing Theory
  Traditional theories of memory segmented human memory into different stores
  

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Sleep Psychology

• Stages of Sleep
  Stages of our sleep process explained.
  

• Sleeping Disorders
  Common disorders associated with sleep.
  

• Sleep Deprivation
  What happens when someone is deprived of sleep?
  

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Stress Management

• Anger Test
  This test will see how you react in stressful situations.
  

• Stress, Depression & Anxiety Test
  Take the stress test and measure your stress levels.
  

• What is Stress?
  What happens to make us stressed? Find out what a popular theory on stress explains how it aids our survival, and what a folklore story says about the topic.
  

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