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Systems thinking and practice
Digital & Computing

Systems thinking and practice

...psychology and many other fields some say there is something special about systems, just as the different disciplines mentioned above are said to have different ways of thinking about the topic that characterises them...Systems thinking and practice: 3 Ways of thinking - The fact that there are different ways of thinking comes as a surprise to some people. That is because...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Medicine transformed: on access to healthcare
History & The Arts

Medicine transformed: on access to healthcare

...psychological development, thus unwittingly creating the first generation of mothers worried that their babies walked and talked ‘late’ (Unwin and Sharland, 1992). Generally, the wealthier classes enjoyed the sort of varied diet thought to promote good health. They could afford meat, fish, fresh fruit and vegetables (Burnett, 1979, pp. 213–39). However, some wealthy...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Understanding science: what we cannot know Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding science: what we cannot know

...psychology, it commonly refers to the preoccupation with one’s own appearance or actions that’s typically heightened during teenage years. It also describes our concept of ‘I’ as a distinct individual. The term ‘self-aware’ might be used to describe some similar ideas; we’re aware of our own existence in a way that, for example, our television isn’t. We...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Digital thinking tools for better decision making Badge icon
Digital & Computing

Digital thinking tools for better decision making

...psychological research suggests are possible reasons why our estimates are often very inaccurate...Session 3: The big calculator: 6 Thinking fast and slow - In his book Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman (2011) argues the case for two types of thinking. ‘System 1’ is fast, instinctive, often unconscious, and requires comparatively little effort. However, it...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Money & Business

Internships and other work experiences

...Psychologies video from life coach Barry Ennis to hear a bit more about these two approaches and the value of using both to explore the options that might be open to you. INSTRUCTOR: Before we do, I would like you just to make a note of the real-life decision coming up for you that we can use as a case study throughout this four-week coaching programme. And we can...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Developing leadership practice in voluntary organisations
Money & Business

Developing leadership practice in voluntary organisations

...psychology, maintains that organisations and sectors tend to choose leaders who are typical of the broader group (Hogg, 2001; Hogg and Terry, 2000). For example, if an organisation seems to value risk taking above all other things, then there is a good chance that it will select people deemed to be successful at taking risks as a leader. Our tendency to appoint leaders...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Approaching literature: reading Great Expectations
History & The Arts

Approaching literature: reading Great Expectations

...psychology and background has just been given to the reader at some considerable length, over four pages. Pumblechook's shopman has no further role in the novel by Dickens, and although Pumblechook's association with seedcorn continues – towards the end of the book his mouth is stuffed full of flowering annuals by the journeyman Dolge Orlick (p.461) – his inner life...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Health, disease and society: Scottish influence in the 19th century
History & The Arts

Health, disease and society: Scottish influence in the 19th century

...psychology’, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, vol. 44, pp. 397–410, 539–54. Lawrence, C. (1979) ‘The nervous system and society in the Scottish Enlightenment’ in B. Barnes and S. Shapin (eds) Natural Order: Historical Studies of Scientific Culture, Beverly Hills and London, Sage, pp. 19–40. Porter, R. and Porter, D. (1988) In Sickness and in Health: The...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs