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Managing my investments
Money & Business

Managing my investments

...psychology? Answer Several reasons may apply. Primarily, an accepted quantitative model of human behaviour simply does not exist. It may also have been driven by economic and business demands for neat solutions. The longer the financial boom of the 1990s and early 2000s went on without material problems, the more confidence the banks, regulators and governments had that...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Systems engineering: Challenging complexity
Science, Maths & Technology

Systems engineering: Challenging complexity

...psychological return that they provide, or the social status that participation confers punters on a horse race are offered better odds on outsiders than on the favourite motor insurance companies want bigger premiums from drivers with a poor claims history investors in the stock market demand greater returns from shares that are more volatile than the average of the...
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Level 3: Advanced 25 hrs
The Ancient Olympics: bridging past and present
History & The Arts

The Ancient Olympics: bridging past and present

...psychology Working and Learning In Sport and Fitness The case against perfection Interview with Michael Sandel Cheating in sport (Radio 4) Naughty Nero British Philosophy of Sport Association...The Ancient Olympics: Bridging past and present: 5 Day One: The opening ceremony (athletics and religion) - The Ancient Olympics were, in essence, a religious festival. The Games...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Learning, thinking and doing
Science, Maths & Technology

Learning, thinking and doing

...psychological literature by Boring (1930). It can be viewed as a head-and-shoulders portrait of either an old woman or a young woman. (If you have difficulty seeing both, it might help to know that the old woman is in profile and looking to the left; the young woman, also looking left, is turned away from the viewer. The old woman's left eye the young woman's left ear....
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
Reading evidence
Society, Politics & Law

Reading evidence

...psychological drama are different not just in content but in form. Genre describes this mix of form and content, as in ‘the genre of tabloid journalism’.) We also need to consider the size and scope of the sample from which qualitative evidence is drawn. How representative is the sample? We also need to ask ourselves what our own instant reaction to the piece is, and...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Learning to teach: becoming a reflective practitioner
Education & Development

Learning to teach: becoming a reflective practitioner

...Psychological Science, vol. 9, no. 5, pp. 178–81. Lunenberg, M. and Korthagen, F. (2009) ‘Experience, theory and practice wisdom in teaching and teacher education’, Teachers and Teaching, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 225–40. McGregor, D. and Cartwright, L. (2011) Developing Reflective Practice: A guide for beginning teachers, Open University Press. Mezirow, J. (2000)...
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Level 3: Advanced 5 hrs
Managing complexity: A systems approach – introduction
Digital & Computing

Managing complexity: A systems approach – introduction

...psychology is incorrect). (Source: After Lakoff and Johnson, 1999, pp. 552–557) Answer I think the last pair is the most challenging for me and others I encounter – not because I do not accept it on the basis of evidence emerging from over 30 years of cognitive science research, but because it is still difficult to talk about. My experience is that the majority of...
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Level 3: Advanced 75 hrs
Coaching others to coach Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Coaching others to coach

...Psychology of Coaching, Leicester, The British Psychological Society, pp. 14–26. Martin, S. (1996) ‘Support and challenge: conflicting or complementary aspects of mentoring novice teachers?’, Teachers and Teaching, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 41–56. Nelson, L., Cushion, C. J., Potrac, P. and Groom, R. (2014) ‘Carl Rogers, learning and educational practice: critical...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs