(Aaron Beck and Albert Ellis) According to this model, individuals who have mental disorders have irrational thinking as opposed to maladaptive behaviours (such as in the behavioural model).

Resource of the week: Psychlab This week's resource will be useful for students looking for ideas for their psychology coursework. Psychlab contains 10 cognitve psychology experiments that can be run on Windows computers.........

Animated Multistore Model This week’s A level psychology resource of the week is an animation of the multistore model.

Study shows how using mental strategies can alter the brain's reward circuitry The cognitive strategies humans use to regulate emotions can determine both neurological and physiological responses to potential rewards, a team of New York University and Rutgers University neuroscientists has discovered. The findings, reported in the most recent issue of the journal Nature Neuroscience, shed light on how the regulation of emotions may influence decision making.

Great apes plan ahead A study that may be of interest to readers interested in comparative psychology has shown that just like humans apes can plan for their future needs by using self-control and imagining future events. Mathias and Helena Osvath's research, from Lunds University cognitive Science in Sweden, is the first to provide conclusive evidence of advanced planning capacities in non-human species. Their findings are published online this week in Springer's journal, Animal Cognition.