Psychology 2610G Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Charles Spearman, Educational Psychology, Impulsivity
5 Jan 2019
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Friday, october 6, 2017 educational psychology textbook notes chapter 4 learner differences and learning needs. Disabilities and handicaps: disability the inability to do something speci c, such as walk or hear, handicap a disadvantage in a particular situation, sometimes caused by a disability. May be related to changes in brain volume, myelination (coating of neural bres the makes processing faster), density of dopamine receptors, or processing abilities in the prefrontal lobe such as selective attention and working memory. Can increase throughout the lifespan because it includes learned skills and knowledge such as reading, acts etc. General ability may be related to the maturation and functioning of the frontal lob of the brain, while speci c abilities may be connected to other parts. Gardener stresses there may be more kinds of intelligence. The existence of prodigies and other exceptional individuals who are experts in some areas and average or below in others. An identi able core operation or set of operations.
