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Ivan Pavlov – a Russian Physiologist, and the first Russian to win the Nobel Peace Prize for Physiology or Medicine – was studying the gastric system of dogs when he observed that the dogs began salivating in anticipation of food… The dogs had learned to associate certain sounds, or doors opening, with the delivery of food.

Endel Tulving proposed one of the earliest, and notably influential, distinctions in Long Term Memory. His theory divided Long Term Memory into three separate processes.

In 1974, Baddeley & Hitch presented a new theory of primary memory, which distinguished itself from previous theories by splitting up the memory store into multiple components.

It might not be something we think about explicitly, but the act of lying is underpinned by a series of complex and intriguing psychological processes: goal-setting, social manipulation, theory of mind, memory, imagination…

One in five American high school students work more than 15 hours a week alongside their schooling and, whilst this can lead to positive outcome regarding self-management, there are several downsides associated with teen labour.

A decade after the publication of One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (by Ken Kesey), Stanford Psychologist David Rosenhan tested the limitations of psychiatry by submitting 8 perfectly healthy participants to psychiatric hospitals.

Atkinson and Shiffrin provided a key memory model to the field of Cognitive Psychology in 1968. Their model was originally called the Two Process Model, then the Three Process Model, and now more widely known as the Multi-Store Model of Memory.

Philip Zimbardo’s most famous study, The Stanford Prison Experiment, almost went horribly wrong. The experiment had to be called off within a week because the conditions had proved to be too dangerous for participants to continue.