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A question of ethics: right or wrong?
Health, Sports & Psychology

A question of ethics: right or wrong?

...et al. (2010, p. 345) acknowledge that the coach has a central role in influencing moral behaviour, stating ‘the coaching session, the training field, the changing room, the game, are all environments where children (and older athletes), alongside the presence of the coach, develop and test the moral dimensions of their evolving characters’. To help practitioners to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Project governance and Project Management Office (PMO)
Money & Business

Project governance and Project Management Office (PMO)

...et al. (2008) a survey across five continents with several projects or programmes based in each is described. This research is interesting because it builds on the recognition that the sponsor can be crucial to the success of a project, and it investigated the role of the sponsor and the connection between the sponsor and governance of projects. Crawford et al. make a...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
From sound to meaning: hearing, speech and language
Health, Sports & Psychology

From sound to meaning: hearing, speech and language

...et al., 1980). Thus quite different associations are being evoked in the vervet brain. But in this course, the vervet monkey example will mainly be used as an illustration of how different human language is from the communication system of any other primate. The computational task for the human brain in understanding a single sentence is vastly more complex than the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Waste management and environmentalism in China
Nature & Environment

Waste management and environmentalism in China

...et al., 2016) and show that lung cancer is the most common cancer causing death. However, a considerable amount of evidence needs to be gathered before some hazardous chemical in the environment can be shown unequivocally to be the cause of increased cancers. Activity 1 Pathways for hazardous chemicals Timing: Allow about 10 minutes a. How might the toxic chemicals in the...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Marketing communications as a strategic function
Money & Business

Marketing communications as a strategic function

...et al. (1994) point out that planning marketing communications as if the different ways of reaching the consumer exist in isolation is essentially an organisation-centred view of marketing. A customer-centred view would acknowledge that customers pay scant regard to whether the communication in question is through advertising, public relations or any other channel....
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Living psychology: animal minds
Health, Sports & Psychology

Living psychology: animal minds

...et al., 1993). The scene is a typical household kitchen. On the kitchen counter is a plate of biscuits. Lily is in the kitchen. Lily is hungry and can see the biscuits. Which of these assumptions, if any, do you think are reasonable to make: Lily likes eating biscuits Lily would be happy if she ate the biscuits Lily would be unhappy if she could not eat the biscuits Lily...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Napoleonic paintings
History & The Arts

Napoleonic paintings

...et de Trianon. Photo: Bridgeman Art Library This statement at once draws on the classical tradition of idealized representation (such as we have seen in David's Marat) and expresses a typically Napoleonic faith in the charisma of the heroic leader. Whether or not he actually uttered these words, Napoleon undoubtedly did have an aversion to sitting for his portrait. Nor...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Attention
Society, Politics & Law

Attention

...et al. (2002) used the Evett and Humphreys (1981) technique, but with modifications. As in the earlier study, they showed a potential prime (e.g. ‘lion’), followed by a hard-to-see masked target (e.g. ‘tiger’). However, there were two changes in this study. First, the priming word could be displayed either for a very short time, so that it was allegedly...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs