Higher Psychology

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Individual Behaviour

1. Sleep and Dreams: Biological Processes

The role of the brain in sleep, circadian rhythms, non-REM and REM sleep, Oswald's Restoration theory, and Dement and Kleitman's 1957 study.

2. Sleep and Dreams: Cognitive and Psychodynamic Processes

Sleep and information processing, Crick and Mitchison's Reorganisational theory, Czeisler et al's shift-work study, and psychodynamic processes including manifest and latent content.

Social Behaviour

3. Conformity and Obedience: Conformity

Types of conformity, normative and informational influence, individual/situational/cultural factors, and Mori and Arai's 2010 study.

4. Conformity and Obedience: Obedience

Factors affecting obedience, autonomous and agentic levels of behaviour, and Milgram's 1963 study.

Additional Topic: Memory

5. Memory: The Multi-Store and Working Memory Models

The multi-store model (sensory register, short-term, and long-term memory) and the working memory model (central executive, phonological loop, visuo-spatial sketchpad, episodic buffer).

6. Memory: Explanations of Forgetting

Four real explanations of forgetting: trace decay, interference, the absence of cues, and forgetting due to brain damage.

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