PSYC 3402 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Absenteeism, Learned Helplessness, Grey Matter
16 Oct 2020
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Each of these health-related factors can affect attention, reasoning, learning, and memory. Poor nutrition affects gray matter mass in children"s brains. Skipping breakfast is highly prevalent among urban minority youth, and it negatively affects students" academic achievement by affecting cognition and raising absenteeism. Toddlers from middle- and upper income families actually used more words in talking to their parents than low-ses mothers used in talking to their own children. A child"s vocabulary is part of the brain"s tool kit for learning, memory, and cognition. Words help children represent, manipulate, and reframe information. Kids from low-income families are less likely to know the words a teacher uses or the words that appear in reading. Teachers can: focus on vocabulary building and incorporate vocabulary practice into daily rituals: effort: research suggests that parents from poor families work as much as parents of middle- or upperclass families do. One reason many students seem unmotivated is because of lack of hope and optimism.
