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IT in everyday life
Science, Maths & Technology

IT in everyday life

...intelligent personal assistants, greatly boosting our productivity. Most things that we thought need human creativity can even be automated. Computers already write good music for instance. What will be left are those areas of work that need the human touch. We will quickly move through the information economy into the care economy, exploring what it is we want from each...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Investigating psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Investigating psychology

...intelligence testing? Answer Alfred Binet Which two methods did Sigmund Freud use in his study of personality? Answer Clinical and case study...Session 1: Asking questions about psychology: 5 Influences on and from psychology - You will now use the CHIP resource to explore the following question: what are the influences on and from psychology? Activity 4 Open the CHIP...
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
An introduction to computers and computer systems
Digital & Computing

An introduction to computers and computer systems

...artificial limbs could not have happened, and you would not have the luxury of many conveniences now taken for granted, such as email. ...Session 1: Computers and processors: 1 The first computers - The computers which form the basis of those used today were mainly developed in the 1940s. The following quote taken from that era shows how difficult it was to conceive of...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus
History & The Arts

Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus

...artificial restrictions on human potential. He has gone as far as his human condition will allow him to go, but wants to go further still, which means transforming himself into a ‘mighty god’, ‘a deity’ (ll. 64, 65), a goal he feels only magic will enable him to realise. When Faustus declares that he wants to achieve something that ‘[s]tretcheth as far as doth...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Minerals and the crystalline state
Science, Maths & Technology

Minerals and the crystalline state

...artificially heated or irradiated amethyst.) Milky quartz is white and cloudy as a result of tiny bubbles of fluid (liquid and/or gas). In a few minerals, such as tourmaline, an individual crystal may be multicoloured (Figure 8), reflecting subtle changes in chemical composition as it grew. Although most commonly black, other colours of tourmaline include brown, green,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Meiosis and mitosis
Science, Maths & Technology

Meiosis and mitosis

...artificially dabbing pollen grains from one plant onto the female flowers of another plant. These plants are the parental generation (abbreviated to P), and the cobs resulting from the cross are the first offspring generation or first filial (pronounced 'phil-ee-al') generation, (abbreviated to F1 ). The subsequent generations in such an experiment are called F2, F3, and...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Studying mammals: The opportunists
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: The opportunists

...intelligence'. How do the babirusas featured in the TV programme at 09.30 'know' that a certain sort of clay can neutralise the poisons in their favourite Pangi tree fruits? Much the same question could be asked of comparable behaviour in tapirs, which are herbivorous browsers. The sequence at 12.07-18.35 in the TV programme 'Plant predators' of elephants excavating for...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Marketing communications in the digital age
Money & Business

Marketing communications in the digital age

...artificial connection between them becomes real in our minds. The use of emotional appeals is a key component of this process. Figure 6 shows some of the most commonly used emotional appeals. You will explore each one in the following sections. [Described image] Figure 6 Types of emotional appeal...Marketing communications in the digital age: 5.1 Fear and guilt - Fear and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs