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Introduction to child psychology
Education & Development

Introduction to child psychology

...cognitive changes that occur during childhood?' As you work through this material, you will also gain a deeper understanding concerning how psychologists work with young children across a range of applied settings through activities and audio-visual materials...Childhood is a time of rapid growth and development, and studying these changes is endlessly stimulating. In...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Ads of our time – are teens susceptible to food ads in digital media?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ads of our time – are teens susceptible to food ads in digital media?

...cognitions (thinking) but rather those that appeal to emotions. This means that understanding the purpose of advertising is not actually that relevant when it comes to resisting an ad’s effects. Instead, the question is: once the emotions are engaged, do we have the motivation to resist? Finding the motivation to resist can be particularly difficult for teens, as...
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Article 5 mins
Do children have agency as authors?
Education & Development

Do children have agency as authors?

...cognitive demands involved. In exercising their authorial agency as writers, they need to be enabled to decide: what they want to write about (content), what their writing is seeking to achieve (purpose) who will read their writing (audience) what form might be appropriate (form) As teachers we cannot offer free choice all the time, but it is possible to negotiate...
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Article 10 mins
Exploring the psychological aspects of sport injury Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring the psychological aspects of sport injury

...cognitive-behavioural principles in the management of patients with back pain and neck pain’, Physiotherapy, vol. 94, no. 4, pp. 306–13. Heaney, C. (2006) ‘Recommendations for successfully integrating sport psychology into athletic therapy’, Athletic Therapy Today, vol. 11, pp. 60–2. Heaney, C. A., Green, A. J. K., Rostron, C. L. and Walker, N. C. (2012) ‘A...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Attacked but not hacked: How secure was the US election?
Society, Politics & Law

Attacked but not hacked: How secure was the US election?

...cognitive systems. Consequently, many Americans believe that the voting “system” in America cannot be trusted – even though there is no such thing. Rather, the country’s elections operate on a patchwork of local and state rules, procedures and technologies. To wit: Some states use fully electronic voting while others retain the traditional paper ballot. Polls open...
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Article 5 mins
Making creativity and innovation happen
Money & Business

Making creativity and innovation happen

...cognitive aspects of creativity and how personality and individual differences might contribute explore ways in which individuals can enhance their own creative potential appreciate how organisational factors such as culture, leadership, diversity and structure can both help and hinder creativity and innovation appreciate how organisations can be more strategic in their...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Methods in Motion: How do researchers know?
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: How do researchers know?

...cognitive dominated methodologies; also because climate change is so painful to face that it needs methods going beyond denial, disavowal and projection. Free association narrative interviews encourage associations that help go beyond participants’ controlled presentation of a logically structured narrative. Data analysis requires following unintended free associations...
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Article 5 mins
Animal-Computer Interaction and dogs
Digital & Computing

Animal-Computer Interaction and dogs

...cognition research, were initially prototyped in the 1980s. Roughly a decade later, companies such as Lely and Fullwood pioneered the development of automatic robotic milking systems, which allowed dairy cows to voluntarily milk themselves and which have since evolved in both precision and sophistication. In spite of this history, so far the discipline of Interaction...
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Video 15 mins