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Health, Sports & Psychology

Forensic psychology

...cognitive skills and to see whether your powers of investigation are as good as a crack squad of police officers, as you try to solve a crime using nothing but evidence from eyewitnesses. This course is intended for those with an interest in psychology and/or criminal investigation, and does not require any previous experience of studying either subject. If you found this...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Reading: re-asserting the potency of the personal
Education & Development

Reading: re-asserting the potency of the personal

...cognitive benefits and offers an externalised model for silent, independent reading, enabling children to experience the patterns, language and tunes of texts which they could not yet read independently.Significantly, the shared experience of being read to draws the class together in a kind of bonding time and establishes ‘texts-in-common’ whichprompt interaction....
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Article 10 mins
Addressing health inequalities in greenspaces to age well: Part I socio-economic and transport access inequalities
Health, Sports & Psychology

Addressing health inequalities in greenspaces to age well: Part I socio-economic and transport access inequalities

...cognitive stimulation) is a framework, which we have been exploring in our Ageing Well Public Talks series, which has now been running for five years. As part of The Open University and The Parks Trust Milton Keynes’ collaboration, we have been focussing on how greenspaces are crucial resources to help us into ageing well. It is well noted that greenspaces enhance the...
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Article 5 mins
The Borders of Astrobiology
Science, Maths & Technology

The Borders of Astrobiology

...cognitive machinery and we cannot deny that our view of life has a particular anthropocentric bias. I would say that the search for intelligent life beyond Earth has that anthropocentric bias – we are essentially looking for extra-terrestrial intelligent life that is like ourselves. However, astrobiology is interested in life more broadly defined. This includes...
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Article 5 mins
What makes it hard for migrants to learn the language of their new home?
Languages

What makes it hard for migrants to learn the language of their new home?

...cognitively demanding language that is necessary to succeed in school and in the professions. Conversely, the proficiency of older learners is often misjudged because even high-proficiency post-puberty learners tend to retain a ‘foreign’ accent. Just as the fluency of children and adults is judged by different yardsticks, fluency will seem different for different...
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Article 5 mins
Starting with psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Starting with psychology

...cognitive psychology. Cognition means knowledge so cognitive psychologists are interested in what knowledge people have, how they have acquired this knowledge and how they use this knowledge. This means that the areas they study include attention, perception, memory, problem solving and language. Organising our thoughts involves: using mental images forming concepts...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Retail marketing
Money & Business

Retail marketing

...cognitive disturbance. A pet physically distracts the message recipient but the recipient will also begin thinking about the distraction. Picture 3 this is an example of cognitive noise. The message recipient does not understand the message. The language is difficult for the message recipient to understand and therefore they are not able to decode the message completely....
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Business models in strategic management
Money & Business

Business models in strategic management

...cognitive/linguistic schema business models as conceptual representations/descriptions of how an organisation functions. You will look at each of these in more detail in the following sections...Business models in strategic management: 1.1 Business models as attributes of real firms - This first interpretation of the meaning of a business model is focused on explaining...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs