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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
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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
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
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Money & Business

Introducing the voluntary sector

...become literal battlegrounds over the issue of student power; or public schools, city halls, and police departments (or big business which is likely to be next on the expanding list of targets). The underlying issues are essentially the same – “nobodies” in several arenas are trying to become “somebodies” with enough power to make the target institutions...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring the psychological aspects of sport injury

...OU student and Olympic Gold Medallist Helen Richardson-Walsh explains more...Have you ever experienced a sport injury? Have you ever thought there could be a psychological dimension to sport injuries, as well as a physical one? Sport injury is relatively common among sport and exercise participants, and while the physical impact of injury is often easy to recognise, the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Julian Hector - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Julian Hector - Earth in Vision

...become more interested in small things, but I remember as a boy, I just always wanted to pick everything up, it didn’t matter what it was, but just pick it up and look at it. What I’m working on now Well we’ve got lots of big things at the moment, I’ve got some TV series running. One of them has been quite a hit actually, it was called Tiger about the House, but...
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Video 30 mins
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