PSYC 3P60 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Limbic System, White Matter, Frontal Lobe
23 Mar 2016
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Lecture: intelligence and role of early experience in cogniive development. Mathew efect: for to everyone who has, more shall be given and he will have an abundance; but from the one who does not have, even what he does have shall be taken away. Good readers become beter readers and poor readers are let behind more and more (poor readers don"t get worse, they just don"t get beter and get let behind bc diference increases) Knowledge that words consist of separable sounds; number one predictor of reading ability. We know word breaks because we see it in print. English: has deep orthography (system for convering leters into sounds is irregular) Reading ability is signiicantly worse than intellectual ability would predict (discrepancy where you should be in terms of reading) Phonological processing is best predictor of dyslexia (ex. Manifestaion depends on grapheme-phoneme correspondence (how well does sound match theleter)
