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Verbal fluency
Health, Sports & Psychology

Verbal fluency

...intelligence! Here are some tests to measure your verbal fluency. You will need: a stopwatch, or a watch or clock with a second hand; pencil and paper; ideally, another person to time you and count your word output. Test 1 Speak as many fruit names as you can in 30 seconds. Test 2 In thirty seconds, speak as many words as you can that start with the letter B. If you are...
Start writing essays
History & The Arts

Start writing essays

...intelligent but misinformed. Giving both sides of the argument Matthew Kelly’s approach is to try and talk himself out of an argument, he often ends up switching sides. Writing your conclusion It is important to make sure it doesn’t sound like you have too much more to say, it should be conclusive. A student's approach to drafting and revising Student Beth Lewis...
What does Marine LePen plan for France?
Society, Politics & Law

What does Marine LePen plan for France?

...Intelligent protectionism’ France’s prosperity, Le Pen argues, depends on ending globalisation and replacing free trade with “a new patriotic model” of “intelligent protectionism” that will radically reduce unemployment. Globalisation will be tackled with state-led re-industrialisation. Expanding on the document, Le Pen has explained that she would, for...
Innovation in policing
Society, Politics & Law

Innovation in policing

...intelligent than it has been in the past. Video 1 Bobby Singleton Having watched the clip and listened to ACC Singleton’s perspectives, reflect and make some notes on how you might be able to draw upon his insights to enhance innovation in your organisation...Innovation in policing: 1.1 Types of innovation - As is evident, innovation is a highly diverse concept and can...
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Studying mammals: Return to the water
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: Return to the water

...intelligent - Intelligence is a useful commodity: it can help an animal to make sense of its environment and cope with the demands of social behaviour (including courtship and competition). Hunters tend to be relatively intelligent, and otters, pinnipeds and cetaceans, for example, share a playful curiosity that is characteristic of animals that catch other animals for a...
What is the Golem Effect - and how does it harm bilingual students?
Languages

What is the Golem Effect - and how does it harm bilingual students?

...artificially inducing high or low expectations of academic talent, the implications of the Pygmalion and Golem effects in diverse schools are clear for students from backgrounds about whom group stereotypes exist: if there is a widespread belief in a society that the children of rich parents have higher academic potential than the children of poor parents, many teachers...
The Problem with Pink
History & The Arts

The Problem with Pink

...artificiality. For me, as an art historian specialising in eighteenth-century French art, the debate around pink is of interest because no period in the history of art is more associated with the colour. For much of the century, art and design was dominated by the playful, erotic and decorative style known as the rococo. Artists associated with the style, most notably the...
Psychological profiling
Health, Sports & Psychology

Psychological profiling

...intelligence too. I believe Aristotle said something along the lines of "nobody is evil (from their own point of view), for if they thought their act was evil they wouldn't do it." My belief is that comprehension of others, of others' points of view, is something that has to be thought about in order to be acquired. While empathy is often thought of as a single entity, I...