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How to be a critical reader
Languages

How to be a critical reader

...psychology should be scientific in its approach. Answer Thorndike, Watson and, later, Skinner, Eysenck and others argued that psychology should be scientific in its approach. Select the answer for Question 1b here Fact Opinion a. Fact b. Opinion The correct answer is b. Question 3 Greer et al. developed a form of computational model called a ‘connectionist network’....
Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Equity – law and idea
Society, Politics & Law

Equity – law and idea

...psychological effects of capitalism such as Hebert Marcuse (1998, 2002). Returning to Ellul: faced with capitalism’s demands for increased efficiency and the economic rationalisation of systems and institutions such as those of law and equity, Ellul’s claim is that justice will wither and die because it is too uncertain and unpredictable to effectively meet those...
Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
Inclusive Leadership: Effecting change
Education & Development

Inclusive Leadership: Effecting change

...psychology (Janis, 1982) and means a group has eight supposed symptoms: a sense of invulnerability moral superiority explaining away things that are contrary to the dominant view a stereotyped views of others self censorship of deviations from the group consensus a shared illusion of unanimity putting pressure on dissenters a collective, protective set of beliefs that...
Teaching secondary modern foreign languages
Education & Development

Teaching secondary modern foreign languages

...Psychology of the Language Learner: Individual Differences in Second Language Acquisition, Mahwah, NJ, Lawrence Erlbaum. Doyle, W. (1983) ‘Academic work’, Review of Educational Research, vol. 53, no. 2, pp. 159–99. Fehér, J. (2010) ‘The essence of creativity’, TeachingEnglish [Online]. Available at http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/ article/ essence-creativity...
Taking your first steps into higher education Badge icon
Education & Development

Taking your first steps into higher education

...psychology tend to be more focused on the individual, while other social sciences like sociology or economics tend to focus on relationships between groups of people. This is not a hard and fast distinction, for example there is a branch of psychology called social psychology. This week you will: explore how social science sees families and relationships revisit the cycle...
Managing complexity: a systems approach
Society, Politics & Law

Managing complexity: a systems approach

...psychology is incorrect). (Source: After Lakoff and Johnson, 1999, pp. 552–557) The third ball is concerned with how a systems practitioner puts particular systems approaches into context (i.e. contextualizing) for taking action in the ‘real world’; that's the juggler's C ball. One of the main skills of a systems practitioner is to learn, through experience, to...
Developing employability through sport and physical activity
Health, Sports & Psychology

Developing employability through sport and physical activity

...Psychology, 1(1), 58-78. Matthews, D. (2023) ‘The amazing tale of Englishman Will Still, Europe’s youngest boss who cut his teeth playing Football Manager and is now on a stunning unbeaten run with Ligue 1 Reims’, The Daily Mail. Available at:
An introduction to artificial intelligence
Education & Development

An introduction to artificial intelligence

...Psychology. Furthermore, the cross-over with Engineering and Scientific disciplines also coincided in the later decades of last century with the formation of a new discipline now known as Computer Science. The following is a brief, decade-by-decade timeline of prominent events within the relatively recent history of AI (not including 2020’s, since the course was...