MUSI 3702 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Protective Factor, Medieval Commune, Community Building
25 May 2016
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Task switching going back and forth between tasks. The benefits of early skill development in this area are profound and long lasting: Marshmallow test see if children would be tempted to eat the marshmallow or wait to benefit more. Children able to delay gratification were able to do better in school and have higher social competence (based on questionnaires) Selective attention, impulse control and working memory task. Children asked to focus on the sound of one tone and to ignore another in go/no-go task. 80% of the tones were the go tone so children were to press the button, 20% were the no-go tone so children were not to press the button tests ability to withhold pressing the button. In order to discover the source of brain activation as children complete the go/no-go task: Looking for specific components, event-related potentials (erps), associated with impulse control (n2, 30 children 9-12 years old participating in an orkidstra program.
