Activity for the book My Psychology

Chapter App 2.2 Plasticity

Use your experience with the app in Chapter App: 2.2 Plasticity or view this video overview to answer the questions.

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According to the GlassesOff website, “The brain…has the ability to be trained and developed to improve its performance.” This ability to adapt to experience is known as .
The GlassesOff training exercises are intended to improve the brain’s ability to process visual images. A number of areas of the brain are involved in vision processing. Which part of the brain is connected to the eyes through the thalamus and begins to process information from them?
Areas of the brain change size in response to experience. Inna has been using the GlassesOff app for three months and has shown the expected level of improvement, according to the app’s evaluation. As a result, the “eye” portion of which structure in Inna’s brain, involved in taking in visual information, should she expect to be larger?
Based on its capacity for , or the creation of new neurons, we should expect that the brain of a younger person would exhibit greater plasticity than the brain of an older person.
GlassesOff is designed to improve the brain’s ability to process visual information based on the brain’s plasticity. Which of the following cells are thought to be the most plastic cells in the brain and body?