PSYCH211 Lecture : Lecture Notes Nov. 17 & 22 very detailed lecture notes from Nov. 17 & 22. This material is not in the text book
16 Oct 2011
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Performance = what you do with what you know. Factors affecting performance: nervousness, alertness, memory, anxiety, hunger. Executive functions an umbrella term: it doesn"t refer to one thing, refers to a family of things. These functions are helpful for making decisions, much like an executive of a company. Inhibition and impulse control e. g. the thumbs-up and pointing game. Prepotent response = dominant response, must be inhibited (suppressed) in the hand game. All these executive functions are associated with the prefrontal cortex of the brain. There are certain tasks (tests) that were designed to assess executive functions in adults that had had brain lesions in the prefrontal cortex. If these tests are simplified so they are appropriate for children, major changes are seen in the preschool years. Stroop task adult version colour names are shown in a different colour ink. The task is to read the colour of the ink that the colour name is written in: green,
