Key Studies in Psychology
| Topic | Subtopic that the study supports | Study |
| Conformity | Informational social influence | 1. Lucas |
| Normative social influence | 2. Asch | |
| Variables that may affect conformity (Group size, unanimity, task difficulty) | 3. Asch’s variations | |
| Conformity to social roles | Conformity to social roles | 4. Zimbardo |
| Obedience | Research into obedience | 5. Milgram |
| Situational variables that increase obedience (proximity, location, uniform) | 6. Milgram’s variations | |
| The authoritarian personality and obedience | 7. Elms | |
| Resistance to social influence | Social support as an explanation for resisting social influence | 3. Asch’s variations |
| Locus of control and resisting social influence | 8. Holland | |
| Minority influence | Explanations for minority influence | 9. Moscovici |
| Social change | Minorities and social change | 9. Moscovici |
| Conformity and social change | 10. Nolan |
| Topic | Subtopic that the study supports | Study |
| Multi-store model (MSM) | The coding of short and long term memory | 1. Baddeley |
| The capacity of short term memory | 2. Jacobs | |
| The capacity of long term memory | 3. Linton | |
| The duration of short term memory | 4. Peterson and Peterson | |
| The duration of long term memory | 5. Bahrick | |
| Research supporting the MSM | 1. Baddeley | |
| Research contradicting the MSM | 6. Shallice and Warrington (KF) | |
| Types of long term memory | Case studies to support different types of long term memory | 7. HM 8. Clive Wearing |
| Working memory model (WMM) | Research supporting the WMM | 6. Shallice and Warrington (KF) |
| Explanations for forgetting | Interference theory | 9. McGeoch and McDonald |
| Retrieval failure | 10. Godden and Baddeley 11. Carter and Cassaday | |
| Factors affecting eyewitness testimony (EWT) | Misleading information: Leading questions | 12. Loftus and Palmer |
| Misleading information: Post-event discussion | 13. Gabbert | |
| Anxiety (reducing the accuracy) | 14. Loftus et al | |
| Anxiety (increasing the accuracy) | 15. Yuille and Cutshall | |
| Improving the accuracy of EWT | Using the cognitive interview to increase the accuracy of EWT | 16. Kohnken |
| Topic | Subtopic that the study supports | Study |
| Introduction to attachment | The formation of attachments | 1. Schaffer and Emerson |
| Animal studies of attachment | Animal studies of attachment | 2. Lorenz 3. Harlow |
| Explanations of attachment | Learning theory of attachment (contradictory research) | 1. Schaffer and Emerson 3. Harlow |
| Bowlby’s monotropic theory of attachment | 4. Brazelton | |
| Bowlby’s theory of attachment (contradictory research) | 1. Schaffer and Emerson | |
| Types of attachment | Types of attachment | 5. Ainsworth |
| Cultural variations of type of attachment | 6. van Ijzendoorn | |
| Breaking attachments | Bowlby’s maternal deprivation hypothesis | 7. Bowlby |
| Institutionalisation | 8. Rutter | |
| Attachment and later relationships | The influence of early attachment on adult relationships | 9. Hazan and Shaver |
| Topic | Subtopic that the study supports | Study |
| The learning approach | Classical conditioning | 1. Pavlov |
| Operant conditioning | 2. Skinner | |
| Social learning theory | 3. Bandura |
| Topic | Subtopic that the study supports | Study |
| The behavioural approach and phobias | Behavioural explanation of phobias | 1. Watson and Raynor |
| Behavioural treatment for phobias | 2. Gilroy | |
| The cognitive approach and depression | Cognitive explanation of depression | 3. Grazioli and Terry |
| Cognitive treatment for depression | 4. March | |
| The biological approach and OCD | Biological explanations of OCD | 5. Nestadt |
| Biological treatment for OCD | 6. Soomro |
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