EVALUATION OF ATTENTION INDICATORS IN PRESCHOOL CHILDREN WITH DIFFERENT LEVELS OF INTENTIONAL WORKING MEMORY

Abstract

Introduction. Taking into account the individual psycho-physiological characteristics of each child at the stage of preschool education is the basis for successful adaptation to learning and maintaining the psychosomatic health of children. Attention is closely related to other cognitive characteristics such as visual and auditory memory, so it is important to study the features of attention of children with a leading auditory or visual analyzer.Aim. To analyze attention spans in preschool children with varying levels of uncontrolled auditory and visual memory.Methods. Observation was carried out on 46 children of 5-6 years of preparatory groups to the preschool educational institution in Sumy (24 girls and 22 boys). To assess the function of attention the generally accepted psychodiagnostic method Proofreading by B. Bourdon - J. Anfimov was used. To assess auditory memory, the method of Memorizing10 words (А. R. Luria) was chosen; visual memory was assessed by the method of L. M. Shipitsyna.Results. The total number of characters viewed and the number of symbols crossed out for girls are higher than for boys, the number of characters erroneously crossed out, the number of missing characters for boys is lower than for girls, which probably characterizes a higher level of accuracy.The ability to maintain a high level of concentration is more common in six-year-olds than in five-year-olds. For five-year old children the high level of auditory memory was observed in 21.05 ± 4.07% of the entire contingent, and among children of six years the high level of auditory memory was registered already in 35.71 ± 6.55% of cases, visual − in 31.58 ± 5.68% of the contingent of five-year-old children and 21.88 ± 4.20% of six-year-old children.Conclusion. The importance of auditory memory for children increases with age. The high level of concentration of 5-year old children coincides only with the average level of auditory memory and completely coincides with the high level of visual memory. Among 6-year old children high concentration of attention occurs in people with different levels of auditory and visual memory. Key words: preschool age; memory; attention; mental productivity.