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24 Oct 2019: What are the basic principles of vaccinology? What are the different kinds of. vaccines? Vaccines work by eliciting long-lasting immunity – so to understand vaccines, you must have. a basic understanding of immunology. The immune system is divided

24 Oct 2019: What are the benefits of vaccines? What are the risks? How do you evaluate a. vaccine and decide who should get it and when? Although 100% vaccination coverage would provide the best protection against disease,. vaccines are still effective when a

28 May 2019: Resource 1. 1a – What Do We Really Mean by Rationality? The world that we live in is a complex one, and so economists tasked with trying to model the economic interactions within it face a significant challenge. In order to help make sense of it

28 May 2019: Resource 2 – Applications of Rational Decision-Making. Theories of rational decision-making are very relevant to a number of different areas of the economy. As the following section will demonstrate, we can move beyond the standard application of

28 May 2019: Resource 4 – Exercises. 1. Below are listed a potential set of preference orderings for three individuals Maynard, Milton, and Milo. Can you identify whose preferences violate the assumption of transitivity discussed earlier in the resource, and

28 May 2019: Resource 5 - Answers to Exercises. 1. Milo’s preferences violate the transitivity axiom discussed earlier in the resource. Remember how transitivity was defined: transitive preferences can be thought of as consistent preferences. This means that

24 Apr 2019: Before we learn anything about how babies think,. let’s discuss how psychologists can even communicate. with infants. Imagine you want to test if a. three-month old baby understands the concept of. maths. You design a neat experiment to test this

24 Apr 2019: Task Answers. 1. Psychologists measure infants’ gaze to gather evidence for their studies. Come up. with a method which could be used to measure how long an infant looks at. something (which equipment would you need? Outline all the steps you would

24 Apr 2019: Peekaboo! If I close my eyes I can’t see you and that means you’re gone! Or does it? Babies are not told how physics work. Even if. we told them, they don’t understand language. yet, so they wouldn’t learn anything anyway. The. task is not

24 Apr 2019: Task Answers. 1. Watch this short clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jW668F7HdA. The baby in the video is given two tasks – firstly, her mum shows her a toy and then hides it. under a blanket. The baby lifts the blanket and finds the toy. How