TITLE:
Primary School Children Cognitive Processes Development Research
AUTHORS:
Kabylova Almakhan, Kussainova Manshuk
KEYWORDS:
Cognitive Process; Primary School Children Development; Visual-Efficient Thinking; Image-Efficient thinking; Psychic Functions
JOURNAL NAME:
Creative Education,
Vol.5 No.4,
March
12,
2014
ABSTRACT: One of the important directions of school psychologist
work with children is cognitive area development. Development problem,
correction and improvement of learners’ intellect abilities are one of the most
important in psychological-pedagogic practice. It is fairly considered that its
main way of solution is rational organization of all the educational process.
Specially organized game training of thinking can be considered as a
supplementary. The paper presents a research of primary school children
including different methods such as E. Lan dolt rings, Raven matrix, Rubiks
cube. Children from the 1st to the 4th grade at the age
of 7 to 11, total number 80, participated in the research. The research
was conducted on the basis of school No. 6 (Aktau city, Kazakhstan). The
conclusion was made that those children with low results have weakly developed
image-efficient thinking. Children with average results have demonstrated
visual-efficient thinking as average developed. And children with high results
have demonstrated high developed visual-efficient thinking. Important psychic
functions for primary school children are perception, memory and imagination,
but of course the most important at this age is thinking development. None of
the psychic functions can be developed without thinking.