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Do you have a photographic memory?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Do you have a photographic memory?

...Psychology qualifications. Being able to vividly retain an image in your mind after only brief exposure to it is incredibly rare. It's known as eidetic memory. Some initial tests have suggested that a small percent of children and a smaller amount of adults have this special ability. This allows them to continue to see an image, in detail, for a short while even after...
Children and the Internet
Health, Sports & Psychology

Children and the Internet

...psychology... How children use the internet Professor Sonia Livingstone discusses why she was drawn to this area of research Percieved dangers Professor Sonia Livingstone explains the risks of unregulated access to information from net Regulation and benefits Professor Sonia Livingstone feels the benefits outweigh the risks Working with children methods and challenges The...
Why limited-time offers make shoppers say 'bye now', not 'buy now'
Money & Business

Why limited-time offers make shoppers say 'bye now', not 'buy now'

...psychology, particularly aversion to small-scale risk, make time-limited offers particularly attractive, and that this attraction is stronger when consumers are not subject to high time pressure. There is growing concern that by using cookies to track the identities of website visitors, internet sellers may remove low-price offers between a potential buyer’s first and...
Victory through resilience: how England Vitality Roses adapted to setbacks
Health, Sports & Psychology

Victory through resilience: how England Vitality Roses adapted to setbacks

...Psychological Association (APA) defines adaptability as the capacity to make appropriate responses to changed or changing situations; the ability to modify or adjust one’s behaviour in meeting difference circumstances or different people. Furthermore, according to the ‘Tripartite model’, adaptability also refers to an individual’s cognitive, behavioural, and...
From ‘refrigerator mothers’ to paracetamol: why harmful autism myths are so common
Health, Sports & Psychology

From ‘refrigerator mothers’ to paracetamol: why harmful autism myths are so common

...O'Dell, Professor of critical developmental psychology, The Open University; Charlotte Brownlow, Professor of Psychology, School of Psychology and Wellbeing, University of Southern Queensland, and Sandra Thom-Jones, Honorary Professor, University of Wollongong This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article....
How do you read a person their rights when English isn't their first language?
Languages

How do you read a person their rights when English isn't their first language?

...psychology research. The document is being widely circulated to judicial officers, lawyers and police officers, and associations to which they belong. Some initial responses are very positive, with one Australian judge saying that she “will be referring to [it] often”. We are also asking professional organisations in linguistics, psychology and linguistics to endorse...
Explore OpenLearn from The Open University
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Explore OpenLearn from The Open University

...Psychology learning materials available on OpenLearn for free here - this includes articles, badged courses, videos and interactives. Explore our range of Psychology qualifications with The Open University, and discover the flexible way to get the degree you’ve been dreaming of. LawOur top three free courses You can check out the full range of Law learning materials...
No Pause for Thought? Brexit, Bias and Political Manipulation
Health, Sports & Psychology

No Pause for Thought? Brexit, Bias and Political Manipulation

...psychology of Brexit and contemporary politics, in a series of articles by Volker Patent. In this first article, we look at how the language of Brexit encourages the formation of political cliques. ...This article is part of our Brexiting collection: [A table of newspapers from the morning after the Brexit referendum. The central newspaper is the Daily Mirror, with the...