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    Outline and Evaluate strategies for memory improvement. (12 marks) The first main memory improvement technique is the use of verbal mnemonics that focuses around words. For example acronyms‚ (where a word or sentence is formed from the initial letters of other words) e.g. - UNICEF - The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund. Another technique is an acrostic (a poem or sentence where the first letter in each line/word forms the method used for the item being remembered). E-g Homework

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    Outline and evaluate the Psychodynamic approach to abnormality (12marks) It claims that personality develops in childhood through a number of ‘psychosexual stages’ and that too much or too little pleasure at one of these can lead to fixation and abnormal behaviour. For example between the ages of two and four children are in the anal stage – too much focus on holding in faeces during this time can lead to an ‘anally retentive’ adult personality which is obsessively neat and tidy‚ in some cases leading

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    usefulness of Marxist approaches to an understanding of crime and deviance (21 marks) Karl Marx‚ would not have considered himself a Marxist but nevertheless‚ here’s what you get: Karl Marx believed that criminals are as much made as born. He theorized that Societies determine what they view as crime but that the "minority in control" determines the scope and distribution of punishments as well as the levels of punishments. Of capitalism Marx wrote about the concept of how crimes such as unfairly

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    Outline and Evaluate Biological Explanation for Mental Illness The Biomedical model of Mental Illness states that metal illness is caused by either a physical problem with the brain‚ for example that some schizophrenic patients have parts of there hippocampus missing. Genetics‚ meaning that you inherit a genetic pre-disposition to depression or some other mental illness as someone in your close family had that mental illness‚ or down to neurotransmitter (serotonin‚ dopamine...) imbalances in

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    This study is a replication of a study by Loftus and Palmer in 1974. The aim of the study is to test the effect of leading questions in eyewitness testimonies and how reliable the account of the witness is. The experiment uses two groups which receive two different verbs‚ ‘smashed’ and ‘contacted’. The method consists of an independent measure design. The independent variables are the way the words are phrased in the questions‚ while the dependent variable is the estimation made by the participants

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    There are three definitions of abnormality; the first is deviation from social norms. A person will be diagnosed with this when they have deviated from the unwritten rules and standards of society making them seem abnormal. Jahoda identified this abnormality and said there were 6 conditions associated with good mental health. A positive attitude‚ Self-actualisation‚ Resistance to stress‚ Personal autonomy‚ accurate perception of reality‚ and Adaption to the environment. However there are limitations

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    Level Material Appendix H Outline and Thesis Statement Guide What is your thesis statement? ___Hate crimes are fueled by a lack of knowledge towards an individual’s sex‚ race‚ religion‚ sexual orientation‚ or disability I. Introduction II. First main point – What does society’s definition of a hate crime A. Supporting details- The origin of hate crimes in the United States 1. Subdetails- The purveyors instrument when perpetrating hate crimes

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    Outline and evaluate the learning theory of attachment The learning theory‚ firstly proposed by Dolland Miller (1950) argues that attachment is a form of nurture and so is learnt. Behaviourists came up with the idea that it is learnt either through classical or operant conditioning. The learning theory was introduced by behaviourists who base most of their explanation on the effects of nurturing. They proposed that all behaviour is learned rather than inborn and In terms of attachment‚ through

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    Outline some of the theories which seek to explain an area of development in the child. Drawing upon observations that you have made in schools‚ discuss the significance and evaluate these theories for the teacher in planning effective learning situations. Justify your answer with specific examples from your own experience and your reading. Theories surrounding language development within infants and young children and how these theories differ in their ideas. Language is a systematic means

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    Outline and Evaluate the Working Memory Model The working memory model is a theory for how short-term memory works‚ and an expansion of the views expressed in the MSM theory. Baddeley and Hitch in 1974 felt that STM was not just one store but a collection of different stores. These concepts lead them to form a model which consists of three slave systems; the central executive‚ the phonological loop and the visuo-spatial sketchpad. They used the phrase ‘working memory’ to refer to the division of

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