TITLE:
Profile Performance of Working Memory in Children of Elementary Schools
AUTHORS:
Rita de Cássia Coutinho Vieira Fornasari, Taís de Lima Ferreira, Sylvia Maria Ciasca
KEYWORDS:
Working Memory; Language; Children; Elementary School
JOURNAL NAME:
Psychology,
Vol.4 No.10A,
October
30,
2013
ABSTRACT:
Objective:
To compare the performance of working memory in children of 5 years and 1 month to 6 years and 11 months of public and private
Elementary Schools. Methods: 34 subjects were evaluated for both genders
composing the GI and GIII public education aged 5 - 6 years; GII and GIV
private education aged 5 - 6 years, with an average age of 6 years and 11
months. All subjects were submitted to the Working Memory Assessment Protocol.
Results: There were statistically significant differences between the public
school and private school in tests of verbal span of serial repetition in
direct order with words like phonology and semantics and different words with
different semantics and phonology. Between groups, a statistically significant
difference occurred between GIII and GIV in verbal span, free recall for
polysyllabic words with different semantics and complex phonology; between GI
and GII, GIII and GII, GIII and GIV, the verbal span of words with phonology
and different semantics, and between GIII and GIV in verbal span of words with
the same phonology and semantics. The variables in these groups are age and
type of school. Conclusion: With advancing age and grades, the developments of
working memory and best performance of working memory were for public school
children aged 6 years.