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Intuitive eating: a new relationship with food, or another fad diet?
OpenLearn Ireland

Intuitive eating: a new relationship with food, or another fad diet?

...et al., 2009), the attentional blink paradigm (Piech, Pastorino & Zald, 2010) and dot probe tasks (Placanica, Faunce & Soames Job, 2002), to test what people focus on have found that people’s attention is biased toward food stimuli when they are calorie deprived. Moreover, brain imaging studies have found increased activity in areas relevant for attention when calorie...
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Article 5 mins
A question of ethics: right or wrong?
Health, Sports & Psychology

A question of ethics: right or wrong?

...et al. (2010, p. 345) acknowledge that the coach has a central role in influencing moral behaviour, stating ‘the coaching session, the training field, the changing room, the game, are all environments where children (and older athletes), alongside the presence of the coach, develop and test the moral dimensions of their evolving characters’. To help practitioners to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Secondary learning
Education & Development

Secondary learning

...modes of learning suit different students. It has also been termed ‘learning preferences’ or ‘learning strategies’. Some people believe that these ideas have implications for the classroom because a student’s preferred learning style may affect the way in which they respond to your teaching. Various schemes have been suggested and are popular in schools....
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Exploring the psychological aspects of sport injury Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring the psychological aspects of sport injury

...et al., 2015). Whilst Lydia is not qualified to deliver sport and exercise psychology support to Travis she can still deliver what Heaney (2006) terms ‘frontline’ psychological support, which could involve social support e.g. listening to Travis talk about how the injury is making him feel. Here’s what Lois’s coach Wilma had to say: Case study: The perspective of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Ymdopi ag Iselder
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ymdopi ag Iselder

...Le vide, y gwagle, y gwacter ac mae o’n ... ofnadwy. [Stephen Fry] Sylwadau Er bod teimladau o ofn a thristwch fel arfer yn ymatebion priodol a normal i bethau sy’n digwydd mewn bywyd, maen nhw’n gallu datblygu i fod mor oruchafol ac anodd eu trin nes bod pobl yn gofyn am help proffesiynol i ddelio â nhw. Mae'r anawsterau hyn yn aml yn cael eu hystyried yn...
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Article 30 mins
From sound to meaning: hearing, speech and language
Health, Sports & Psychology

From sound to meaning: hearing, speech and language

...et al., 1980). Thus quite different associations are being evoked in the vervet brain. But in this course, the vervet monkey example will mainly be used as an illustration of how different human language is from the communication system of any other primate. The computational task for the human brain in understanding a single sentence is vastly more complex than the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Waste management and environmentalism in China
Nature & Environment

Waste management and environmentalism in China

...et al., 2016) and show that lung cancer is the most common cancer causing death. However, a considerable amount of evidence needs to be gathered before some hazardous chemical in the environment can be shown unequivocally to be the cause of increased cancers. Activity 1 Pathways for hazardous chemicals Timing: Allow about 10 minutes a. How might the toxic chemicals in the...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Using film music in the classroom
Education & Development

Using film music in the classroom

...modes, range of pitches, and repetition of motifs in the theme. Part 4 (older pupils) Finally, ask pupils to match qualities of the character with design features of their motif (you may like to use the sample answers given here as a basis for developing your own answers). Click 'View document' below to open Film music motifs – indicative answer sheet View...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs