PSY312H1 Lecture : Cognitive development 11 Nov 23.docx
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Podcasts: radiolab inheritance (recap of epigenetics) listen for review of lecture! But once exited programs, follow up few years later showed that most advantages were lost by grade 4- only a few years. Control groups received some benefits like nutritious meals, social service, but none of the interactive features (daycare, focusing on perceptual motor skills, skills learned through interacting) At 12 years, the 6 point difference iq was considered significant. But at 21 years old, 5 points but still significant, but the effect size is not huge (just because significant doesn"t mean it"s important) still within 1 sd. However, other measures that are not iq are profound- tey had higher academic achievement, more likely to finish hs, have skilled jobs, less likely to get knocked up as teens, less likely to drugs/smoking. Important to thinking and culture as a whole.
