What type of research has influenced the notion of the brain's plasticity?

What will be an ideal response?


A good answer would include the following key points:
• Work with nonhumans has helped reveal the nature of the brain's plasticity.
• Studies have compared rats raised in an unusually visually stimulating environment to those raised in more typical and less interesting cages.
• Results show that areas of the brain associated with vision are both thicker and heavier for the rats reared in the enriched environment.
• Thus, indicating the environmental influences on brain development, and the notion that a developing structure is modifiable due to experience.

Psychology

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Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

Psychology

For children with a(n) ____ style, language is primarily an intellectual tool. On the other hand, for children with a(n) ____ style, language is primarily a social tool

a. expressive; referential b. phonemic; morphemic c. referential; expressive d. dynamic; static

Psychology

Given what you have learned about motivation and education, what strategies would you suggest to increase the program completion rate in adult literacy programs? Provide examples to support your ideas.

What will be an ideal response?

Psychology

The creation of the Mental Health Transition Fund emerged as a recommendation from which report?

a) The Kirby Report (2006 ) b) The Romanow Report (2002 ) c) The CIHI report (2006 ) d) Health Canada Report (2002 )

Psychology