PSY BEH 192T Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Lexical Decision Task, Jargon, Scientific Literacy
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2:14 pm: education neuroscience- cognitive neuroscience with a educationally inspired research questions. Goal-improve quality and effectiveness of educational practices. Basic research (behavior and neuroscience)-> applied research (intervention evaluation)-> scaling (classroom curriculum) Pure basic research- psychology and cognitive neuroscience. Brain plasticity and maturation- how the brain develops- the implications that it has for educational practices. Development of expertise and skills(reading and math) Language acquisition- how does it look like when someone doesn"t have the ability to hear. Socioeconomic status/poverty and brain development- the effects of poverty can be very severe: brain development and adolescence. Subcortical and prefrontal region- the imbalance in development of these systems might be at the core of aberrant teen behavior -> emotional reactivity, and risk behavior: brain plasticity- taxi driver study. The taxi drivers had a larger right (posterior_ hippocampus than control subjects. They had to do a lot of test.