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For plasticity test mid term

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Expertise & Learning: Describe 'expertise'   Deliberate attention given to a particular skill in order to acquire a higher level of that skill for brain and environmental adaptations  
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Expertise & Learning: Expert performance (eminence)   Outstanding achievement and innovative contributions to a domain by eminent individuals  
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Expertise & Learning: Delberate practice   Extremely structured task explicit goal to improve performance. Repetitions alone dont lead to improvement  
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Contributng factors to becoming expert: Explain Genes and Heredity   Galton (1869) talent as innate expression of heredity genes  
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Contributng factors to becoming expert: Explain External resources   Parental involvement and support, access to practice, training, materials & teachers  
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Contributng factors to becoming expert: Explain Exposure   Early age exposure to a specific domain  
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Contributng factors to becoming expert: Explain Enculturation   Normative environmental influence and values (musical families, etc)  
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Domain specificity - What is that   Experts superior speed in their domain does not transfer, no transfer effect, unless it was string to another instrument. Reaction time, general perception no transfer effect  
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What is deliberate practice?   Simon & Chase - 10 year rule, they found was linked to maths, chess, tennis, swimming and even long distance running.  
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What is the difference between work and play?   Work: incl.public performance, competitions, services for payment, or other efforts motivated by external rewards Play: activities with no explicit goal and are inherently enjoyable  
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Memory Backgrund: Explain Ebbinhaus   The forgetting curve, the decrease in ability of the brain to retain memory over time.  
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Memory Background: Explain Atkinson & Shriffin   Multi store model - sensory registers >> STM and then a rehearsal buffer exists and retrieval and storage mechanisms between the two  
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Memory Background: Explain Baddeley & Hitch   STM model(WMS) - Visuo spatial sketchpad and the phonological loop systems working with executive function and working memory, an episodic buffer which is the executive function  
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