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Critically exploring psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Critically exploring psychology

...intelligent. This inspired many psychologists to investigate the thinking mind. Cognitive psychologists often propose models for behaviours that take the form of interconnected ‘boxes in the brain’. These models aren’t designed to identify where in the brain a particular behaviour or action derives from; rather they attempt to identify how incoming information is...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs
Can the way research is reported play into sexist assumptions?
Society, Politics & Law

Can the way research is reported play into sexist assumptions?

...intelligence, social skills and caring. Social psychological research suggests that such complementary stereotypes are particularly effective mechanisms for obscuring gender inequality – much more so than overt misogyny, which is easy to recognise and challenge. By affording scientific validation to complementary gender stereotypes, sex difference research may help to...
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Article 10 mins
Eutrophication
Nature & Environment

Eutrophication

...artificial or human-induced eutrophication. Diatoms are microscopic photosynthetic organisms (algae of the kingdom Protoctista), which live either free-floating in lakes or attached to the surface of rocks and aquatic vegetation. It is well established that some species of diatom can tolerate oligotrophic conditions whereas others flourish only in more eutrophic waters....
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Tolstoy and the search for the meaning of life
History & The Arts

Tolstoy and the search for the meaning of life

...artificial life. His involvement with Freemasonry gives him some meaning for a while but not for long. Tolstoy, through his own experiences and pondering, narrates the novel to show inadequacies when the characters try to find a meaning in their life, this is shown when Pierre rejects the Masons. It's only when Pierre discovers his true love that his life is finally given...
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Article 15 mins
Intermediate Italian: describing people
Languages

Intermediate Italian: describing people

...intelligent, but a bit shy and too sensitive. She is very intelligent, but rather shy and too sensitive. She is rather intelligent, but too shy and a bit sensible. a. She is very intelligent, but a bit shy and too sensitive. b. She is very intelligent, but rather shy and too sensitive. c. She is rather intelligent, but too shy and a bit sensible. ......
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Delacroix
History & The Arts

Delacroix

...intelligence of the viewer could not penetrate the subject, the elements of which are isolated, where the eye cannot find its way within the confusion of lines and colours, where the first rules of art seem to have been deliberately violated. Sardanapalus is a mistake on the part of the painter. (Quoted in Jobert, 1998, p.83) Most assessments, like this one, slated the...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
What's in your toolbox?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What's in your toolbox?

...as a fundamental aspect of health. Clinical psychology review, 30(7), 865-878. Hayes, S. C., Luoma, J. B., Bond, F. W., Masuda, A. and Lillis, J. (2006) Acceptance and commitment therapy: model, processes and outcomes. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 44, 1–25. Guilford, J. P. (1968) Intelligence, creativity, and the* educational implications. San Diego, CA: Knapp....
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Article 10 mins
Foreign games consoles finally enter the Chinese market
Money & Business

Foreign games consoles finally enter the Chinese market

...value of online and mobile game have surged to over $88 billion. Niko Partners, a research intelligence firm specializing in the Asian game market, said in its 2015 China’s video game report that sales of the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One only have yielded 550,000 in China since 2015, partly due to a lack of Chinese games. This article originally appeared on Global Voices...
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Article 5 mins