Kohlberg was influenced by Piaget’s theory of moral development. He believed, like Piaget, that the moral reasoning of children changes over time. He also used moral dilemmas to gather insight into the types of reasoning used…

According to new research by Dr Eveline Crone, eight-year-old children have a radically different learning strategy from twelve-year-olds and adults. Eight-year-olds learn primarily from positive feedback ('Well done!'), whereas negative feedback ('Got it wrong this time')…

Baddely and Hitch believed that the STM store in the Multistore Model was too simplistic: they thought that short term memory was not a passive store, but several active processes that manipulate information.

Atkinson and Shiffrin's Multistore Model of Memory suggests that there are three separate memory stores, Sensory Memory (sometimes called the 'sensory store'), Short Term Memory (STM) and Long Term Memory (LTM). Each store has a different…