735 search results
Social problems: Who makes them?
Society, Politics & Law

Social problems: Who makes them?

...psychology and even bits of sociology. For the purposes of this course, the most useful way of distinguishing the differences in this approach involves considering different levels of explanation. Constructions that stress the ‘social’ conditions and causes of social issues might begin with the level of the individual, looking at character, personality, aptitudes,...
View course Social problems: Who makes them?
Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Learning how to learn
Education & Development

Learning how to learn

...psychology degree. Chose Biology, brain and behaviour as the course title sounds good and the description appealed to me. Might do science degree. This course relevant to psychology and science degrees. Most students have a mixture of reasons for studying, some more dominant than others. And many students find their motives change over time. It is a good idea to pause...
View course Learning how to learn
Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Marketing communications in the digital age
Money & Business

Marketing communications in the digital age

...psychology of risk - Fear and guilt appeals are often premised on notions of risk: that by communicating the risk involved in specific behaviours, the target audience will engage with the message (Eagle et al., 2020). Exploring this theme in more detail, Vos et al. (2017), in a study of gamblers in Australia, found that fear, in particular, evokes threats such as...
View course Marketing communications in the digital age
Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Talk the talk
Education & Development

Talk the talk

...psychologically is it creates an equation. Time is scarce, so what do we do? Well -- well, we speed up, don't we? We try and do more and more with less and less time. We turn every moment of every day into a race to the finish line -- a finish line, incidentally, that we never reach, but a finish line nonetheless. And I guess that the question is, is it possible to break...
View course Talk the talk
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Agatha Christie and the golden age of detective fiction
History & The Arts

Agatha Christie and the golden age of detective fiction

...psychology of the villain, however. Games are symbolic, rather, of the genre’s consistent determination to reach out to the potential reader and to create a communitarian response that drives mass readership. In short, the reader is invited not just to read the text but to share in the deductive process of identifying clues and solving the puzzle of the crime. The...
View course Agatha Christie and the golden age of detective fiction
Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Innovation in policing
Society, Politics & Law

Innovation in policing

...Psychology, 29(1), pp. 1–35. McGrath, R.G. (2011) ‘Failing by Design’, Harvard Business Review, 89(4), pp. 76–83. Miller, P. and Wedell-Wedellsborg, T. (2013) Innovation as Usual: How to Help Your People Bring Great Ideas to Life.Boston: Harvard Business Review Press. Molnar, A., Whelan, C., and Boyle, P.J. (2019) ‘Securing the Brisbane 2014 G20 in the Wake of...
View course Innovation in policing
Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Learning to teach: mentoring and tutoring student teachers
Education & Development

Learning to teach: mentoring and tutoring student teachers

...Psychology Review, vol. 15, pp. 327–58. Taylor, A. (2008) ‘Developing understanding about learning to teach in a university-schools partnership in England’, British Educational Research Journal, vol. 34, no. 1. Timoštšuk, I. and Ugaste, A. (2012) ‘The role of emotions in student teachers’ professional identity’, European Journal of Teacher Education, vol....
View course Learning to teach: mentoring and tutoring student teachers
Level 3: Advanced 5 hrs
Forensic science and fingerprints
Health, Sports & Psychology

Forensic science and fingerprints

...Psychology at the University of Southampton published a paper in the peer-reviewed journal Forensic Science International, in which they presented some fingerprints to experts and asked them to confirm that they did not match a set of reference fingerprints. What the experts were not told was that the prints they were given had previously been positively identified as a...
View course Forensic science and fingerprints
Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs