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Starting with psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Starting with psychology

...mental images forming concepts (putting information into categories) developing schemas (constructing mental packages of related information). We will now look at these three types of organisation in more detail...Starting with psychology: 3.2 Using mental images - As adults, we tend to do most of our thinking in words. However numerous experiments have been carried out...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Arendt
History & The Arts

Arendt

...mental or psychological ones. Hence when she faced up to the classic 'problem of evil', she found it necessary to challenge the modern tendency to identify evil with deliberate maliciousness. Evil happens, to be sure, but it is not necessarily an expression of monstrous or deep-seated malignity. It may just happen. And that is what got her into trouble when she went to...
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The Psychology of Decision Making
Health, Sports & Psychology

The Psychology of Decision Making

...mental short cuts (heuristics) that help us to make quick decisions when pausing to undertake a full analysis would be unwise. While these ways of thinking are not the same as rigorous logic or formally rational reasoning, they are well suited to fast-paced intuitive judgements and actions. However, these evolved modes of thinking also create some major traps. The use of...
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How can you turn desert into farmland?
Nature & Environment

How can you turn desert into farmland?

...health and would lead to many benefits for farmers throughout the world. With these local and global considerations, soil experts are making connections between building resilience in healthy soils and agricultural considerations such as soil fertility, while adding new focuses, such as climate change, to their management investigations. Building resilience in healthy and...
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Foreign games consoles finally enter the Chinese market
Money & Business

Foreign games consoles finally enter the Chinese market

...mental and physical health. In 2000, the State Council published a notice, joined by the Ministry of Culture and another seven administrative departments, decreeing the prohibition of manufacturing and selling game consoles in mainland China, claiming it “seriously jeopardizes young people and disturbs the social order.” This is an excerpt from the notice: 自本意见...
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Reducing the carbon footprint of on-premises IT
Nature & Environment

Reducing the carbon footprint of on-premises IT

...mental health and productivity issues of this false assumption, we must acknowledge that energy consumed by our colleagues (and even by end users while using our products) is the responsibility of the organisation. These emissions fall into what is known as the Greenhouse Gas Protocol’s Scope 3 emissions. As such, from an IT manager’s point of view, the products...
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Nursing associate career pathways - not just the ‘top-up’
Health, Sports & Psychology

Nursing associate career pathways - not just the ‘top-up’

...health care assistant in paediatrics and was interested in progression and wanted to take on more responsibility when her Trust launched a pilot programme for the NA apprenticeship. Initially it was only for those working in adult nursing. However, as the NA programme is not a specific field, she applied and was accepted on the programme in 2019. Amy was the first NA to...
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Want to achieve your goal? Try our Personal Best tool
Health, Sports & Psychology

Want to achieve your goal? Try our Personal Best tool

...health, you should talk to an expert before embarking on any programme of activity. Launch the App in Facebook You will need to sign in through your Facebook account to access the App. Once you are in, the App will be automatically saved in 'Your Apps' area. When you come back each week to record your progress, the App will remember where you were last time and calculate...
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