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Innovation in health and social care: social and historical
Health, Sports & Psychology

Innovation in health and social care: social and historical

...physical functioning. They can provide a way for people to participate in activities that would otherwise be difficult, helping to maintain aspects of the person’s identity. Innovation in this field can be found as far back as the Ancient Egyptians. A 3,000-year-old mummy with a prosthetic wooden big toe with attachment straps, named the Cario Toe, was an extraordinary...
Professional relationships with young people
Health, Sports & Psychology

Professional relationships with young people

...physically and psychologically These are not rigid categories from which you must choose just one; rather, they illustrate the range and variety of the roles that you may be called on to play, depending on such factors as: the young people you are working with any issues that the young people (or you) might be facing the stage of the relationship you are forming...
Motivation and factors affecting motivation
Health, Sports & Psychology

Motivation and factors affecting motivation

...physical or psychological; for example, hunger, thirst, love or friendship. Values are the things that we consider to be most important; for example, family, health or wealth. Goals are the outcomes that we are working towards. This is an interesting definition: describing motivation as a ‘driving force’ suggests a lot of energy being created within us to move us into...
Communication and working relationships in sport and fitness Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Communication and working relationships in sport and fitness

...physical contact between adults and children in sport can take place appropriately and safely...Session 1: What are the purposes of communication?: 7 Eye contact - The role of eye contact (its presence or absence) in face-to-face interaction is crucial. Eye contact during a neutral conversation lasts just a couple of seconds at a time. Eye contact behaviour varies...
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Health, Sports & Psychology

Forensic psychology

...physical evidence (e.g. DNA), the human element of the story, particularly the evidence provided by victims/witnesses, remains a compelling component. In real life, eyewitness testimony plays an incredibly important role in police investigations. As eyewitnesses are human, the accuracy and usefulness of the evidence they provide can only be as good as the human mind...
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Roaring Twenties? Europe in the interwar period
History & The Arts

Roaring Twenties? Europe in the interwar period

...physical expansion of the city as a number of outlying ‘towns’ and other communities now surrounded by the urban spread were officially incorporated into the city. However, it was during the interwar years, under the shadow of defeat and the instability of the democratic experiment that Berliners experienced modernity most intensely. This modernity was viewed both...
From sound to meaning: hearing, speech and language
Health, Sports & Psychology

From sound to meaning: hearing, speech and language

...Physics © Peterson, G. E. and Barney, H. L. (1952) ‘Control method used in a study of vowels’, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 24, No. 2, March 1952. The Acoustical Society of America. Used by permission of the American Institute of Physics Figure 8 Acoustic realisation of different English vowels in samples of normal speech from several...
Approaching language, literature and childhood
Education & Development

Approaching language, literature and childhood

...physical and mental characteristics – size, development or immaturity, and so on – which are common to all children, or by local, cultural decisions. This second idea of childhood changes with time, place, commercialism, politics, and even with individuals; in the West, it has been commonly associated with lack of responsibility. Consequently, how do we categorise...