Memories fade due to lack of revisitation (which is necessary to fortify the memory)

Decay theory of forgetting

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This podcast cover the 4 Psychological risk factor that contribute to the development and progression of the a mental condition listed in the VCE study design: rumination, stress, impaired reasoning and memory & poor self efficacy.

Psychological risk factors

This is the second podcast of a two-part series on the Stanford Prison Experiment: This podcasts covers the key results & findings along with a discussion of the ethical implications of the experiment.

Stanford Prison Experiment: findings & ethics

This podcast covers the background to the experiment, the aim, IV/DV, details of the sample of participants along with a detailed procedure. The results  findings will be covered in a future podcast.

Stanford Prison experiment - Introduction and Method

Evolutionary theory of sleep

This podcasts compares the effects of a legal blood alcohol content of 0.05 (in Australia) vs. one night of full sleep deprivation on: cognition, concentration & mood.

Decay theory of forgetting

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