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How can the arts improve health and wellbeing?
History & The Arts

How can the arts improve health and wellbeing?

...neuroscience: theoretical and practical perspectives. Routledge. Levine, E. and Levine, S.K. (2011) Art in action: expressive arts therapy and social change. Jessica Kingsley. Malchiodi, C.A. (2020) Trauma and expressive arts therapy: brain, body, and imagination in the healing process. Guildford Press. Zarobe, L. and Bungay, H. (2017) ‘The role of arts activities in...
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Virtual murder: Just a game?
History & The Arts

Virtual murder: Just a game?

...cognitions and aggressive affect, and decreases in pro-social behaviour, empathy and sensitivity to aggression’. In response, more than 200 academics signed an open letter claiming that the study was flawed. This repeats a pattern; with violent video games, as with pornography before them, it is difficult to show that there is any systematic link between consumption and...
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Childhood in the Digital Age
OpenLearn Ireland

Childhood in the Digital Age

...cognitively, as children learn new skills, adapt existing ones and become more equipped to deal with the world around them. In this video Nathalia Gjersoe focuses on the future, and especially on the impact of changes to formal schooling and education in the next decade and beyond. Childhood in the Digital Age (Combined) Are you a technology optimist or a technology...
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Video 15 mins
Exploring anxiety
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring anxiety

...neurosciences and mental health. Focusing on anxiety, you will consider key issues concerning diagnosis, causes and interventions. You will also learn how to evaluate news items, and to go behind the headlines and begin to explore some of the more contemporary and controversial findings within the field...This free advanced level course, Exploring anxiety, serves as an...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Making sense of ourselves
Health, Sports & Psychology

Making sense of ourselves

...cognitive ability that psychologists call theory of mind (ToM). ToM refers to the capacity of human beings to use information in order to ‘read’ what other people might be thinking or feeling in a given context. This may sound simple, however ‘mind reading’ involves a highly sophisticated range of cognitive skills, including the ability to take the spatial, social...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Making decisions
Money & Business

Making decisions

...cognitive mastery of their environment. Again, there are more optimistic and more pessimistic versions. The more optimistic describe people who make effective use of lay versions of formal logical and statistical procedures to arrive at conclusions about the physical world and the behaviour of others (Kelley, 1967). Heuristics are mental shortcuts or ‘rules of thumb’....
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Why use literature reviews in health and social care?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why use literature reviews in health and social care?

...cognitive impairment. I keep up to date with the research literature via email alerts from journals, and I noticed that a good deal of research interest was developing in this area...Why use literature reviews in health and social care?: 4 Policy or practice focus, or a mixture? - The case studies in the previous section offer contrasting professional disciplines and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Social marketing
Money & Business

Social marketing

...cognitive theory exchange theory You will find the information you need from Civil Service...Social marketing: 3.2 The factors which influence consumer behaviour - A large number of factors influence our behaviour. Kotler and Armstrong (2008) classify these as: Psychological (motivation, perception, learning, beliefs and attitudes) Personal (age and life-cycle stage,...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs