PSY260H1 Study Guide - Final Guide: Selective Breeding, Fetal Movement, Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor
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Understanding the development of learning and memory: helps tailor school and teaching to place appropriate demands on students, helps us understand normal brain development and opens possibilities for extending/improving function across the life span. One caveat: developmental trends represent averages across considerable variability, variability exists within a cohort (e. g. , the huge diversity of standardized test scores for high school seniors, variability also exists across developmental trajectories. We want to understand changes in the brain and how they effect behaviour and how we can harness this to help with overall health functioning in all stages in life. Even individuals with similar demographics, there can still be significant variability within that group (error variance) There are also developmental trajectories in growth, etc. which vary just as much. We would expect the same thing with learning and memory. Studies shows that in certain points of development, fetuses (cid:272)a(cid:374) a(cid:272)tuall(cid:455) hea(cid:396) (cid:449)hat"s goi(cid:374)g o(cid:374) a(cid:374)d (cid:396)espo(cid:374)d to it.
