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Here is the TalkToFrank health promotional video about heroin. Heroin works like the natural chemicals in your body to make you feel relaxed, powerful and high. But there are dangerous downsides.    

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http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/stellent/groups/corporatesite/@msh_publishing_group/documents/web_document/WTDV027679.pdf

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Here is the original Loftus and Palmer study. Reconstruction of Automobile Destruction: An Example of the Interaction Between Language and Memory ELIZABETH F. LOFTUS AND JOHN C. PALMER University of Washington JOURNAL OF VERBAL LEARNING AND VERBAL BEHAVIOR 13, 585-589 (1974)   loftuspalmer1974

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Below is a student’s answers to the first assessment. The student scored full marks for the assessment. (a) Outline one way of using animals in psychological research to investigate the effects of drugs.                                                                            [2]   One way of using animals in psychological research to investigate the effects of drugs is by using them in laboratory experiments. [...]

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What makes us good or evil? It’s a simple but deeply unsettling question. One that scientists are now starting to answer. Horizon meets the researchers who have studied some of the most terrifying people behind bars – psychopathic killers. But there was a shock in store for one of these scientists, Professor Jim Fallon, when he [...]

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http://youtu.be/v_QbTX2qS10 An example of how eyewitness effectiveness can be tested by using a field experiment. Consider the ethical issues with this study and also any confounding variables.

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