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Psychological research, obedience and ethics
Society, Politics & Law

Psychological research, obedience and ethics

...physical presence of an authority figure was therefore crucial. In another variation Milgram placed two ‘experimenters’ in the room. One told the participants to continue (as in the original study), while the other told them to stop. In this variation, all the participants stopped giving the shocks very early on. This showed that an absence of a clear authority figure...
Introducing music research
History & The Arts

Introducing music research

...physical, psychological, aesthetic, and cultural phenomenon’ (JAMS, viii, p.153). The last of these four attributes gives the definition considerable breadth, although music, and music as an ‘art’, remains at the centre of the investigation. A third view, which neither of these definitions fully implies, is based on the belief that the advanced study of music should...
Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
What happens to you when you read?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What happens to you when you read?

...physically mobile) we can still, to an extent, practise our social skills, and our understanding of others by reading fiction. Activity 3 How writers bring readers up close Timing: Allow approximately 10 minutes for this activity. Writers tell us what we should be thinking about ‘others’ (i.e., their characters) in very different ways, but it’s always a vital part...
Richard Tol - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Richard Tol - Stories of Change

...physical science exercise. RT: I did it as a statistician, I would say, rather than an economist. RH: So you were one of the people that helped prove that human fingerprint was on climate change? RT: We were the first to show that in a statistically sound way. RH: Congratulations. I think probably not a lot of people know that . RT: Very few people ...
Should we test drugs on pregnant women?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Should we test drugs on pregnant women?

...physically quite rough,” Heidi recalls. “I had brain zaps and shivers and was feeling very, very unwell.” But she believes she made the right decision. “You just don’t know,” says Heidi, whose daughter was born last January. “Had something been wrong with her, and I’d carried on taking those medications, then you’d have a lot of guilt wouldn’t you?”...
Starting with maths: Patterns and formulas
Science, Maths & Technology

Starting with maths: Patterns and formulas

...physics or other sciences, you will find lots of examples like this. How do you think these formulas have been derived? How reliable do you think these estimates are? Notice that to find the relative stride length here, we tackled the problem by using the two formulas step by step, but you could also have combined these two formulas into one: and used this new formula...
What do we mean by digital health and social care?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What do we mean by digital health and social care?

...physical systems, radio frequency identification, wireless network, Wi-Fi, transport, aerospace, autonomous care, health care, wearables, industry 4.0, manufacturing, agriculture, smart city, building management, retail, surveillance, smart home, smart energy, smart meter, smart media, consumer electronics, mobile devices, security.] Figure 1 28 Internet of things icons...
Social media and networks in health and social care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Social media and networks in health and social care

...physical and yet they can’t look at naked pictures or pornography. That is one that comes up all the time and to be honest I’m honest with the young people and say I actually don’t know but what I do know is that you are breaking the law and you will get yourself in trouble if you do these things, if you look at pornography or you send naked pictures. Having a...