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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
Keep me walking: People living with dementia and outdoor environments
Health, Sports & Psychology

Keep me walking: People living with dementia and outdoor environments

...OU are working together to evaluate a new initiative of Walking Programme set currently as 5 Ways cafes in the local Manor Parks (Great Linford, MK) for people living with dementia in Milton Keynes and their informal carers and families, which will be an exemplar of interest to a wide range of UK care homes and volunteer organisations. We aim to measure the engagement and...
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Article 10 mins
How to read a rock
Science, Maths & Technology

How to read a rock

...biography of entire mountain ranges. Reading an igneous rock may reveal the secrets of the bowels of a volcano. When you look at enough minerals in enough rocks, you read the letters and the words, the sentences, paragraphs and chapters recorded within them; you can piece together a story and tell the biography of our entire planet. Love science? Go further with the OU...
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Article 10 mins
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
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Health, Sports & Psychology

Forensic psychology

...students, currently studying with The Open University – http://www.open.ac.uk/ choose/ ou/ open-content 2. Enjoyed this? Find out more about this topic or browse all our free course materials on OpenLearn – http://www.open.edu/ openlearn/ 3. Outside the UK? We have students in over a hundred countries studying online qualifications – http://www.openuniversity.edu/...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs