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Cognition and gender development
Education & Development

Cognition and gender development

...become capable of directing their own behaviour in such a way as to satisfy their internalised standards. Furthermore, they monitor their behaviour against those standards, so that they can feel pride on performing gender role-consistent behaviour, even if there is no explicit external praise.In a study which supported this view of gender development (Bussey and Bandura,...
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Article 15 mins
Making decisions
Money & Business

Making decisions

...become risk averse; in a position of loss we will tend to take risks to avoid or recover losses. You may know people who are good at using this to their advantage; they exert influence by framing choices so that others will choose the option they prefer. Box 1 gives an example of how framing can affect our recall of relevant ‘facts’. Box 1: The effect of question...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Introducing key global development challenges
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing key global development challenges

...becomes, and the less straightforward the balance between gains and losses...Introducing key global development challenges: 1.1 Working with global interconnectedness - Addressing global development issues such as migration or environmental degradation creates difficulties and contradictions. The scope and impact of the problem is global in nature yet the impacts are felt...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Spectres, Monsters, Fairies and Vampires: An introduction to the Irish Gothic
OpenLearn Ireland

Spectres, Monsters, Fairies and Vampires: An introduction to the Irish Gothic

...become alienated from it only through the process of repression (p. 241). Another facet of the uncanny in eighteenth and early nineteenth fiction occurs when characters are presented with versions of themselves, whether it is through the appearance of twins, mirror images, shadows, corpses, or even portraits. Uncertainty about whether an object is alive or not is a...
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Article 45 mins
Discovering music: the blues
History & The Arts

Discovering music: the blues

...becomes a point of reference or implied authority. The use of a particular group of instruments for a particular type of music may also place it in a tradition, so a singer, lead guitar, bass guitar and drums might be considered traditional for a rock band. Sometimes the word tradition is used to imply something that is not new. If you had been asked about musical...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
The struggle to save the seabirds after the Torrey Canyon disaster
Nature & Environment

The struggle to save the seabirds after the Torrey Canyon disaster

...become emaciated, as were the Tay Eiders. Hartung (1967) has shown experimentally that the energy metabolism of oiled ducks does increase markedly to make up for the extra heat loss. As this would require twice the normal food intake to maintain, their body fats are used up instead. Only if internal damage is not severe and body fats are still present may a bird survive....
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Article 10 mins
The secret history of teenage bedrooms
Education & Development

The secret history of teenage bedrooms

...becoming a consumer entity in their own right as the teen bedroom culture reaches its zenith. Just describe this movement towards, as it were, and its relation in a way, to the growth in electronics because that was critical, we’ve already had a reference to the radio, but the way in which these elements came together. Jason Reid: Well there’s a few ways it actually...
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Fatih Birol - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Fatih Birol - Stories of Change

...becoming more competitive. On the other hand, there are two other drivers which are also pushing the clean energy technologies in addition to our climate problem. These are: one, is the local pollution in the cities in major emerging countries, which do require clean energy technologies to address those problems; and finally, the energy security is important issue, and...
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