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Psychology around the world
Health, Sports & Psychology

Psychology around the world

...physical abilities, and experience and learn to cope with stress. People are still able to relate to those from different cultural contexts. Psychologists are still figuring out which aspects of the field are universal, and which vary across different cultures and contexts. This course may be your first introduction to psychology, or perhaps you have already studied some...
Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Effects of pollutants on the aquatic environment
Nature & Environment

Effects of pollutants on the aquatic environment

...physics. Apart from keeping us alive, water is used extensively in industrial processes, for recreation and for transport. It is something we can’t do without. The water we use for domestic purposes ought to be free from contaminants, yet water pollution is a major problem in many countries. According to the World Health Organization (WHO, 2002), about 1.7 million...
Accessibility and inclusion in digital health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Accessibility and inclusion in digital health

...physical and mental health. ...In this free course, Accessibility and inclusion in digital health, you will consider some of the ways that people can access digital health in the UK and how they are able to take more control over their physical and mental health. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course K102 Introducing health and social...
Forensic science and fingerprints
Health, Sports & Psychology

Forensic science and fingerprints

...physical evidence used against Asbury in his trial in 1997. McKie testified under oath that she had not been at the crime scene, even though one of her prints was said to have been found there. The crucial point to note is that those who believed her denial asserted that the rest of the fingerprint evidence was undermined. Despite this Asbury was found guilty and...
Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Exploring family health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring family health

...physical care but also their ‘socialisation’. This term is sometimes used to describe how people learn to interact in ways that are typical for the community in which they live, or the ‘social norms’. Social norms are shared patterns of behaviour which are widely accepted as ‘the right way to do things’. Through the process of socialisation, people learn the...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Dallas Campbell meets Frank Drake
Science, Maths & Technology

Dallas Campbell meets Frank Drake

...physics and simple physics and analyse such a situation you discover it’s not easy at all. No matter how sophisticated you are. And to give you a feel for that, let’s just imagine that we had rocket propulsion engines which can get us up to say the tenth of speed of light, which by the way is about as fast as you can go without being in great danger of being destroyed...
Can the way research is reported play into sexist assumptions?
Society, Politics & Law

Can the way research is reported play into sexist assumptions?

...physically competent, while women’s strengths lay in emotional intelligence, social skills and caring. Social psychological research suggests that such complementary stereotypes are particularly effective mechanisms for obscuring gender inequality – much more so than overt misogyny, which is easy to recognise and challenge. By affording scientific validation to...
Attacked but not hacked: How secure was the US election?
Society, Politics & Law

Attacked but not hacked: How secure was the US election?

...physical and network-based tampering. States must continually ensure the integrity of their voter databases to help minimize the potential for voter fraud. And they must provide a trusted audit trail (for example, paper receipts) for election officials and the public to fall back on. There must be a way to clearly resolve questions about the security and integrity of the...