PSYC 391 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Hyperlexia, Asteroid Family, Down Syndrome
3 Feb 2017
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Look through the origi(cid:374)al paper"s refere(cid:374)(cid:272)es to fi(cid:374)d arti(cid:272)les that would-be interesting. Intro should be about the authors and what they are doing in this research. Rest of the paper is the papers that you found etc. Should compare kids to the same mental age, for example: what age should you measure a particular ability, strengths and weakness = the study that we were given. Conclusion: value of the study and what contributions it has made to the field. Paper copy needed + the electronic copy as well title page with student number, date, title. Selective attention and id chapter 6 (iarocci et al. ) Is attention impaired in individuals with down syndrome, fragile x and willia(cid:373)"s syndrome. Attention is fundamental to perception and cognition. We have an infinite number of stimuli that we could attend to but our brain has a limited capacity: we must be selective in what we pay attention to.
