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Living psychology: animal minds
Health, Sports & Psychology

Living psychology: animal minds

...artificial situations, such as observing animal behaviour in a laboratory, and real-world situations, observing animals in their natural habitats (known as ethology). It is widely accepted in psychology that the brain is the part of the body where the functions that involve the ‘mind’ take place. Everything you experience, feel, think, dream, remember, imagine and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Language and thought: introducing representation
History & The Arts

Language and thought: introducing representation

...intelligence, perhaps with the intention of communicating with another intelligent being, or with us, or with God, or (as in a diary or a doodle or an arithmetical calculation) with itself. Considered merely as an unintended and accidental pattern in the dust on the Martian surface, it has no meaning whatsoever. If by outlandish chance a cluster of meteorites fell into a...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Supporting and developing resilience in social work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting and developing resilience in social work

...intelligence Emotional intelligence is the ability to motivate oneself and be persistent when faced with frustration; to regulate one’s moods and maintain the ability to think even when distressed; to display empathy and hope. Emotionally intelligent people are said to be flexible, self-confident and co-operative, use coping strategies, and have good problem solving and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Animals at the extremes: polar biology
Nature & Environment

Animals at the extremes: polar biology

...artificial or pathological conditions. For example, obesity is rare among wild animals, even when food is very plentiful, but in humans, the condition is common and often leads to numerous physiological complications, ranging from susceptibility to diabetes to mechanical damage to legs and feet. Most naturally obese animals occur in cold climates, and there is no evidence...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
Judicial decision making
Society, Politics & Law

Judicial decision making

...Artificial insemination This question introduces an issue of law for the first time. Up until this point, the law you have applied has been certain. However, here the facts are certain, but the law that applies is uncertain. You therefore need to make a finding of law by deciding what the law is before you can apply it. You are sitting as a civil judge in the Court of...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
An introduction to floodplain meadows
Nature & Environment

An introduction to floodplain meadows

...artificial fertilisers for the food they provide, which reduces their carbon footprint. You can find out more about this in the session on food security. Figure 3 shows how carbon is cycled in a floodplain meadow. [Described image] Figure 3 Carbon cycling in a meadow managed through annual haymaking and aftermath grazing in a pasture-fed system. Activity 1 Timing: Allow...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Exploring philosophy: faking nature
History & The Arts

Exploring philosophy: faking nature

...artificial, and that it is a copy, more or less, that might kind of affect our experience of those sensorial features. So whilst we're getting all the same kind of inputs, like it sounds the same and looks the same, we can take all those on board. But we know that it's a bit artificial and that might affect our kind of aesthetic experience. Daisy Dixon on restoring nature...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Starting with psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Starting with psychology

...intelligence tests despite such extensive surgery. In fact they wondered what the purpose of the corpus callosum was if you could cut through it with so little effect. However careful testing by Roger Sperry (1968) and colleagues did uncover behaviour that was far from normal. This work was to gain him a Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1981. Sperry et al, devised a number of...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs