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Leadership and followership Badge icon
Education & Development

Leadership and followership

...Cognitive signals – cynical and dehumanizing perceptions of clients; negativism / pessimism with respect to clients; labelling clients in derogatory ways Behavioural signals – violent outbursts; irritability toward clients; interpersonal, marital and family conflicts; social isolation and withdrawal; responding to clients in a mechanical manner Motivational signals...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
The science of alcohol Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

The science of alcohol

...cognitive process of making the decision to consume alcohol. According to this model, even though addictive behaviours like excessive and chronic alcohol consumption have negative effects on an individual, the beneficial effects of relieving the stresses and strains of everyday life are perceived to outweigh the negatives, so the individual makes the choice to drink. This...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Exploring learning disabilities: supporting belonging Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring learning disabilities: supporting belonging

...cognitive impairment’, I say she is learning disabled or has a learning disability. I need a way to describe her such that I don’t have to go into complicated explanations as to why she hasn’t gone to university, got a job, got a relationship, etc., and why my life turned out the way it has. Also it is the name, the description, the ‘label’ that unlocked the...
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Science, Maths & Technology

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in STEM

...cognition. High-quality DBER, therefore, combines expert knowledge of a science or engineering discipline, of the challenges of learning and teaching in that discipline and of the science of learning and teaching generally. This expertise can, but need not, reside in a single DBER scholar; it also can be strategically distributed across multidisciplinary, collaborative...
Managing my investments
Money & Business

Managing my investments

...cognitive psychologists refer to as ‘quick and dirty’ or ‘good enough’ processing – and often without much conscious awareness. In everyday situations, this really is a very effective, efficient and reliable process that commonly does indeed produce ‘good enough’ decision-making. The more experience people have of particular situations, the more proficient...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs