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Are you a secret hoarder?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Are you a secret hoarder?

...families and friends. Many of us have wardrobes full of clothes we haven't worn for years, books we rarely read and belongings from our and our children's childhoods we cannot part with. When these hoards start to get out of control - for example, when we can no longer fit into new clothes into our wardrobe, most people will have a clear out. A hoarder, however, will...
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Reframing Self-Limiting Beliefs
Health, Sports & Psychology

Reframing Self-Limiting Beliefs

...family, friends, school, society, media, all contribute to self-limiting beliefs. Conner and Barrett (2005) suggest that we continuously assess situations in relation to whether they will help or hinder us, and unconscious beliefs play a part in this assessment. When a situation occurs, it is more likely to be seen as harmful if we have negative self-beliefs, leading to...
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Influence of temperament
Education & Development

Influence of temperament

...family relationships and young children’s response to change within the family’ in Porter, R. and Collins, G. (eds) Temperamental Differences in Infants and Young Children, pp. 1–19, CIBA Foundation Symposium No. 89, London, Pitman. Egeland, B., & Farber, E. A. (1984) ‘Infant-mother attachment: factors related to its development and changes over time’, Child...
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Article 15 mins
10 incredible people whose stories you'll find on OpenLearn
History & The Arts

10 incredible people whose stories you'll find on OpenLearn

...family. She married Tory MP the Hon. George Norton, they had little in common were very unhappy. Norton subjected his wife to vicious beatings. Caroline found consolation in writing and the publication of her verses led to appointments as magazine editor which brought some measure of financial independence. Caroline left her abusive husband in 1836, leading her husband to...
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The Life of Saint Patrick
History & The Arts

The Life of Saint Patrick

...family named Calphurnius, and a denizen of a neighbouring city of the Romans, who not long after abandoned Britain, in 409. Some writers call his mother Conchessa, and say she was niece to St. Martin of Tours. At fifteen years of age he committed a fault, which appears not to have been a great crime, yet was to him a subject of tears during the remainder of his life. He...
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Simple coding
Digital & Computing

Simple coding

...family by clicking on the down arrow next to ‘Share’. If, whilst practicing, you do any mistakes, you can always undo all your changes. Click on the 3 lines icon in the top left corner. A menu appears. Click on ‘Reset’ and confirm you want to put back the code as it was, before you changed the numbers. All done? Good. In the next section we will start learning to...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Environmental management and organisations
Nature & Environment

Environmental management and organisations

...tree in a field, the wooded area, the European area and the entire Earth. Describing any of them as ‘the environment’ opens up a question of scale and the boundaries between them. When does ‘the local environment’ become ‘the national environment’? [Described image] Figure 1 The environment? A single tree in a field, a wooded area, the European area or the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
First steps in innovation and entrepreneurship
Money & Business

First steps in innovation and entrepreneurship

...family home that they designed in 1949 also become an icon of ‘mid-century’ design. Many of the Eames’ furniture designs remain in production today. These designs are also widely imitated, a perhaps unwelcome, yet significant, indication of their enduring quality and popularity. Figure 3 Ray and Charles Eames Figure 4 A classic Eames design – the 670 lounge chair...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs