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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
Environment: treading lightly on the Earth
Nature & Environment

Environment: treading lightly on the Earth

...psychological viewpoint, asking people to reduce their carbon footprint to help tackle climate change is a very difficult message to get across, as it may require immediate sacrifices in order to address an invisible long-term problem. Also, individuals don’t control many of the decisions that affect their carbon footprint, such as national energy and transport...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Introduction to polymers
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to polymers

...forensic investigation concerning a PE product which fractured as a result of oxidation and chain degradation. IR and UV spectroscopy were critical tools in the determination of the causes of the failure of the product...Introduction to polymers: 2.3.2 Chain branching - A germ of the idea is shown by the formulae for 2- and 3-methylpentane in Figure 16. A single methyl...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Cefnogi datblygiad plant
Education & Development

Cefnogi datblygiad plant

...Psychology Monographs, cyf. 75, tt. 43–88. CliffsNotes (2015) Piaget’s Model of Cognitive Development [ar-lein]. Ar gael yn http://www.cliffsnotes.com/ study-guides/ sociology/ socialization/ piagets-model-of-cognitive-development (cyrchwyd 29 Ionawr 2016]) Cole, M. (1998) ‘Culture in development’ yn Woodhead, M., Faulkner, D. a Routledge mewn cydweithrediad â'r...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
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Society, Politics & Law

Introducing Black leadership

...psychological capacities and a positive ethical climate, to foster’ four key attributes: Greater self-awareness. Leaders should be aware of their own strengths and weaknesses and correct themselves accordingly. An internalised moral perspective. Leaders should be driven by a strong sense of their morality and stay true to this. Balanced processing of information....
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Society, Politics & Law

Legal skills and debates in Scotland

...psychology, and law. It was a little bit like an Open University course in a way. And you had to do a little project. In psychology she did it. And I've got her handwriting here because it's from the archives of The Open University. And it's called 'An Experiment in Prejudices.' And what she did was to ask - because she was also studying to be a teacher, studying...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Science, Maths & Technology

Mastering systems thinking in practice

...psychology at University College London, but in 1944 left it incomplete to join the army. He saw service as a company commander and in intelligence in India, and stayed there until 1947, leaving the army with the rank of captain in 1949. He realised that OR, so successful during wartime, also had immense possibilities in peacetime. Appointed to a management position in a...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs