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Machines, minds and computers
Digital & Computing

Machines, minds and computers

...psychological investigations of these processes. Strong artificial intelligence looks to imitate human mental processes with the aim of building computer systems that are intelligent in the same way as humans, and may even be sentient in the way that humans are. Weak or strong, artificial intelligence and the computer are inextricably bound together. Stripping away...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Effective communication in the workplace Badge icon
Money & Business

Effective communication in the workplace

...Psychology Today, Russell (2016) lists a number of characteristics of a workplace where trust is in action. Many of them relate to communication, including: Ideas are shared freely; contribution, collaboration, innovation, and cooperation thrive. Victim thinking, finger-pointing, and negative storytelling are infrequent. Regular feedback and dialogue is commonplace....
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Assessing contemporary science
Science, Maths & Technology

Assessing contemporary science

...Psychological Association’s annual convention. Therefore you would have to search for the associated publication which was only published much later in September 2017 in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment: https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.1518 Headline exaggerated? No, uses the word ‘seems’. No independent comment? Yes, only researchers quoted. ‘Higher risk’?...
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Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
Understanding musical scores
History & The Arts

Understanding musical scores

...psychology of silence in music. These small silences articulate the musical space, so you need to be able to identify rests and places in large scores where instruments are silent in order to understand what is happening and to follow them through. Essentially, you will need to move your eye to the active lines of music not the resting ones. Figure 8 Mozart’s fifth...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Developing Reading for Pleasure: engaging young readers Badge icon
Education & Development

Developing Reading for Pleasure: engaging young readers

...psychological human need to be competent, autonomous and related to others, and enhances self-motivation and mental health. Talk and informal reader-to-reader conversations play a key role in nurturing children’s interest in reading as they recommend books to each other and build reading networks and relationships. In the next section, you will bring together what you...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Gweithio hybrid: llesiant a chynhwysiant
Money & Business

Gweithio hybrid: llesiant a chynhwysiant

...Psychology in the Workplace (Finkbeiner, 2022) gan y darparwr llesiant yn y gweithle, Zevo. Sut oedd yr enghreifftiau y gwnaethoch chi feddwl amdanynt gymharu ag awgrymiadau Zevo? Noder fod awdur yr erthygl yn dweud bod gan gyflogwyr, rheolwyr ac arweinwyr rôl i'w chwarae yn hapusrwydd y gweithle. Bydd Adran 3 yn trafod hyn...Gweithio hybrid: llesiant a chynhwysiant: 2.3...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
MSE’s Academy of Money Badge icon
Money & Business

MSE’s Academy of Money

...Psychology at The Open University Business School and an expert in behavioural finance, introduces the way behavioural biases affect personal financial decisions. A warning before you watch the video: the content does include details of someone receiving a serious head injury. Mark Fenton-O’Creevy So I want to start off by introducing you to a chap called Phineas Gage....
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
The Enlightenment
History & The Arts

The Enlightenment

...psychological threshold: The theatre was like a lunatic asylum, with rolling eyes, clenched fists, hoarse uproar among the audience. Strangers fell sobbing into each other's arms, women tottered, half-fainting, to the door. It was a universal disruption into chaos, out of whose mists a new creation is emerging. (Hampson, 1968, pp. 201–2) The movement also emphasised the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs