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Lottery of birth
Health, Sports & Psychology

Lottery of birth

...cognitive stimulation, they are likely to live in poorer neighbourhoods with less well-resourced schools and to have conflicting pressures such as domestic tasks and paid work (UN, 2013). Belonging to a certain social group, gender, class, minority ethnic group or having a disability, for example, can also reduce the effectiveness of education to create social mobility...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Managing my money
Money & Business

Managing my money

...neuroscience is that cognitions and emotions are completely intertwined and that as humans, emotions are a very important part of our thinking processes. A quite simple way of thinking about how emotions and thinking come together is the dual process model of cognition. If we have a situation, we've got to make a decision, a sort of classical way of thinking about this...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Could we control our climate? Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Could we control our climate?

...cognition theory’ (Kahan et al., 2011). This places people on two axes: one axis of individualism versus communitarianism, the other of hierarchy versus egalitarianism (Figure 4). [Figure 4 shows two arrows (or axes). One runs vertical and one runs horizontal, intersecting to make a cross. On the horizontal scale the dimension is labelled from individualism at the left...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Cànan nan Gàidheal (Gaelic language)
Languages

Cànan nan Gàidheal (Gaelic language)

...cognitive development of bilingual children (1999): ‘Research has overwhelmingly concluded that bilingualism per se does not have any negative effects on cognition. In fact the opposite increasingly appears to be the case: that high levels of bilingualism have accelerating effects on children’s cognitive development.’...Cànan nan Gàidheal: 4.1.2 Ag ionnsachadh...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Supporting female performance in sport and fitness Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting female performance in sport and fitness

...cognitive function (Pitchers and Elliott-Sale, 2019). Any disruption to the menstrual cycle may not always be linked to exercise as it can have psychological or physiological causes...Session 2: Demystifying the menstrual cycle: 2 What do you need to know about the menstrual cycle? - Whether you are a coach, athlete, or fitness trainer it is vital to have some knowledge...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Health and wellbeing in the ancient world
History & The Arts

Health and wellbeing in the ancient world

...neuroscience, you usually learn a lot more about normal human behaviour when you look at extreme cases, the people that have a supra level of performance and people that have some sort of level of impairment. And the impairment’s always very interesting in the context of our understanding of vision. But I think synesthesia is a good focus for saying something that we...
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Level 1: Introductory 18 hrs
Cyflwyniad i greu newid gwleidyddol a chymdeithasol
Society, Politics & Law

Cyflwyniad i greu newid gwleidyddol a chymdeithasol

...cognitive domains for deeper democratic engagement. Teaching and Teacher Education, 75, tt. 259–267...Cyflwyniad i greu newid gwleidyddol a chymdeithasol: Cydnabyddiaethau - Ysgrifennwyd y cwrs am ddim hwn gan Dr Donna Smith (gyda chynnwys ychwanegol yn Adran 6 gan aelodau tîm modiwl D113 Dr Peter Redman a Dr Dan Taylor). Diolch i fyfyrwyr y Brifysgol Agored a helpodd...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Biological, psychological and social complexities in childhood development
Health, Sports & Psychology

Biological, psychological and social complexities in childhood development

...cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) and family-based treatment (FBT). Both treatments are successful in their own right, but differ slightly in how they are carried out. Explore the various treatment methods listed in the websites below and consider which treatment could be most beneficial to Lola. (You’ll need to bear in mind that Lola lives with her mother, who is a...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs