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Using OpenLearn as an OU Student
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Using OpenLearn as an OU Student

...psychology] This means that Open University staff who are supporting you in your studies, including your course tutor, can see all of your relevant Open University study. For example, your tutor could see that you have completed an OpenLearn course recommended for your formal studies. Including your badges on your Student Academic Summary allows you to highlight them to...
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Animal-Computer Interaction and dogs
Digital & Computing

Animal-Computer Interaction and dogs

...psychology of its canine users, these users directly participate in the development process. Assistance dogs In the following video, Dr Clara Mancini talks about the Animal-Computer Interaction team and their collaboration with the charity Dogs for the Disabled to design dog-friendly technologies which will make it easier for dogs to assist their humans in the home....
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Does the rural idyll really exist?
Nature & Environment

Does the rural idyll really exist?

...psychologically. [ever wondered, environment, terry hall, hayfield, inline] Dr Chris Spencer: The psychologists are trying to explain behaviour and I think behaviour is probably shaped not only by our genes but by our past experience, our social world and also the physical world we live in. So it’s trying to find how all of these things act together. Terry: So why do...
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The Amygdala Hijack: Stress Response in Aviation
Health, Sports & Psychology

The Amygdala Hijack: Stress Response in Aviation

...psychology behind this...Aviation has many environmental pressures that personnel are exposed to daily. It is well documented and understood that working as a commercial pilot can be an extremely demanding job due to the many stressors – high workload, heavy responsibilities, time pressures, fatigue, noise, and temperature – experienced while transporting thousands of...
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Social marketing
Money & Business

Social marketing

...psychology and social anthropology amongst others. There is a vast, and growing, body of knowledge on the subject and a few of the main elements will be discussed in this section. Key elements of consumer behaviour include: analysis of the factors which influence behaviour. the role of motivation and attitudes. consumer behaviour models. Activity 2 Before we look at...
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For some people, staying awake might help fight depression
Health, Sports & Psychology

For some people, staying awake might help fight depression

...psychological treatments might also help or even prevent mental disorders.” In the UK, the USA, Denmark and Sweden, psychiatrists are investigating chronotherapy as a treatment for general depression. “A lot of the studies that have been done so far have been very small,” says Veale, who is currently planning a feasibility study at Maudsley Hospital in London. “We...
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The Irish Gothic in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries
OpenLearn Ireland

The Irish Gothic in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries

...psychology. The international upheaval of two world wars actively shaped the work these writers were producing, but the social and political upheavals of Irish politics at home—from the Easter Rising to the Troubles—contributed to a truly distinctive form of Gothic writing produced in Ireland. You will be looking specifically at two examples of this writing: the short...
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Grief and COVID-19: Mourning what we know, who we miss and the way we say goodbye
Health, Sports & Psychology

Grief and COVID-19: Mourning what we know, who we miss and the way we say goodbye

...psychological one, provoking death anxiety, stress and sadness. At present, we are collectively grieving the multiple losses many of us have experienced, these include lost jobs, lost connections with our wider community, and lost opportunities to spend time with family and friends. Many within society have also been affected by loss of their loved ones and it is...
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