How might where people live affect how lonely they feel?
Category: Health, Sports & Psychology
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Psychology around the world looks at some of the ways people think in similar and different ways depending on where they live and their culture. The course starts with some general questions of how similar and different people’s psychology might be in different times and places. This is then followed with some key examples: how people perceive the world, and understandings of wellbeing. Finally, the course looks at how well these issues have been studied in psychology as an academic discipline.
Category: Health, Sports & Psychology
In this course, you’ll explore the way suspects are dealt with during a police investigation and learn about how psychology can help the police with their enquiries.
Category: Health, Sports & Psychology
This course will help you develop a deeper understanding of children's development from the ages of 0-17 years.
Category: Health, Sports & Psychology
Discover a novel originally written as a response to Western literature's protrayal of Africa and the myth of the "dark continent".
Category: Health, Sports & Psychology
Would you make a good eyewitness? Photofit Me explores how we remember faces and challenges you to construct the face of a culprit or to recreate the face of a celebrity or even a friend! Test yourself with our interactive and see how good your face recognition abilities are.
Category: Health, Sports & Psychology
This course takes the real-life cases of a number of different
people to explore what it is like to have the label ‘learning disability’. The
course also considers how it feels to support someone with a learning
disability, as a family member, a friend, an advocate or a paid worker. Through
these human stories the course considers the complex moral, ethical and
practical debates learning disability gives rise to.
people to explore what it is like to have the label ‘learning disability’. The
course also considers how it feels to support someone with a learning
disability, as a family member, a friend, an advocate or a paid worker. Through
these human stories the course considers the complex moral, ethical and
practical debates learning disability gives rise to.
Category: Health, Sports & Psychology
This free course, Making sense of ourselves, introduces you to well-known psychological topics by asking and answering everyday questions, such as Why don’t we like one another? Why would I hang around with you? Do you see what I see? What’s the point of childhood? You’ll learn how psychologists can go about addressing these questions using different research tools and approaches.
Category: Health, Sports & Psychology
In this free course, Forensic psychology, you will discover how psychology can help obtain evidence from eyewitnesses in police investigations and prevent miscarriages of justice.
Category: Health, Sports & Psychology
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Please note: This is course is due to be archived on Wednesday 21th December. You can study the course up until this date. For learners who have completed the course, the Statement of Participation will remain in your learner records in your OpenLearn profile.
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Aerobic fitness is integral to successful sports performance and to maintaining good health. But what sort of exercise should you be doing to develop your aerobic fitness? This free course, Improving aerobic fitness, will help you to answer this question by introducing you to principles of aerobic exercise prescription.
Please note: This is course is due to be archived on Wednesday 21th December. You can study the course up until this date. For learners who have completed the course, the Statement of Participation will remain in your learner records in your OpenLearn profile.
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Aerobic fitness is integral to successful sports performance and to maintaining good health. But what sort of exercise should you be doing to develop your aerobic fitness? This free course, Improving aerobic fitness, will help you to answer this question by introducing you to principles of aerobic exercise prescription.
Category: Health, Sports & Psychology
This free course investigates how scientific and management ideas contribute to success while also taking you on a journey through unique sporting case studies and insights that will change how you view and study sport. You will consider how the mind, the body, the environment and training techniques all contribute to optimum fitness.
Category: Health, Sports & Psychology
Does your pet cat or dog experience emotions the same way you do? Can non-human animals solve complex problems? To what extent do other species have minds that are like human minds? This free course, Living psychology: animal minds, explores these, and other, issues in the psychology of animal minds. Studying animal minds is of great importance to psychologists as humans are, of course, also animals. Researching other species can provide extremely useful insights into how human minds developed throughout evolutionary history.
Category: Health, Sports & Psychology
In this free course, Infection and immunity, you will be introduced to infectious diseases and to the biological agents that invade our bodies and cause them: pathogens. You will also learn about the immune system, the human body’s vital defence against pathogens. Along the way you will learn about the scientific method and how it has helped scientists understand pathogens and aid the prevention of infectious disease. But the challenge is ongoing. Pathogens are everywhere and come in all shapes and sizes. As you will see, the fight against infectious disease remains critical for global health today.
Category: Health, Sports & Psychology
Social care involves the challenge of supporting people who, for a variety of reasons, are unable to function without assistance or supervision. This free course, Social care in the community, focuses on one important area of social care, home care for older people.
Category: Health, Sports & Psychology
This free course explores the term 'motivation' and factors affecting motivation. This includes looking at the most influential theories of motivation that contribute to understanding the causes of motivation. The motivation of sports people and people working in sport and fitness environments are used to help understand the theories presented.
Category: Health, Sports & Psychology
Take our interactive to find out if people with learning disabilities have more independence now institutions are closed and if it has led to a greater inclusion within local communities.
Category: Health
Shonil Bhagwat explains the yogic way of understanding how individual actions relate to global challenges.
Category: Health
Replacing cows milk with non-dairy alternatives can put you at risk of not getting enough iodine. Here's why that matters - and what you can do about it.
Category: Health
How have infectious diseases, both their response to us and our response to them, evolved over the centuries?
Category: Health
Examine the science behind nutrition, covering aspects of biology, chemistry and physics as well as giving some insight into healthier eating. Reading food labels, choosing healthier foods, hydrating appropriately and understanding how we taste food will allow you to be more informed about the choices you make about the food you eat.
Category: Health