Study Of Memory Development Research Articles

The use of digital educational technologies in upbringing and education of senior preschoolers with disabilities

Introduction. The relevance of the study is due to the fact that the search for the most effective upbringing and education technologies is a strategic task of the modern education system that exists and is developing in a post-industrial society. Research purpose is to substantiate the pedagogical feasibility of using digital technologies in the context of transformation of the special education system, including the level of preschool education. Materials and methods. The experimental study was conducted in the Municipal Preschool Educational Institution “Child Development Center – Kindergarten No. 98” in the city of Magnitogorsk in the period from June 2020 to December 2020. Sixty-eight (68) senior preschoolers took part in the experimental work: eighteen (18) children with mental retardation, thirty-eight (38) children with difficulties in psychological development, twelve (12) children with autism spectrum disorders. Research results. Among the respondents of the experimental group, as a result of a series of innovative lessons conducted with the use of Logo 1 sensory wall-mounted developmental speech therapy complex, the percentage increase in the average score of secondary diagnosis in relation to the average score of primary diagnosis in the study of attention development was 15%, in the study of memory development – 23%, in the study of thinking development – 13%, in the study of the level of speech development – 20%. Discussion and conclusion. Digitalization of the preschool educational environment has a positive effect on the development of higher mental processes in preschoolers with disabilities, provided that the following conditions are met: the electronic forms of the provided material are colorful and bright so as to arouse a child’s interest; organized lessons harmoniously combine the classical elements of upbringing and digital educational components that contribute to the transition from simple forms of children’s activity to more complex ones; teachers are interested in studying and using digital analogues of classical forms of organizing correctional and developmental lessons.

Methodological problems in the study of memory development: A critique of the Perlmutter and Myers experiment

It is argued that in their report of a study of recognition memory in 2- to 4-year-olds, Perlmutter and Myers (1974): (a) arrive at an unwarranted conclusion regarding an age-related difference in “retention capacity,” and (b) incorrectly attribute better performance on “new” than “old” items to a developmental lag in “proficiency.” Suggestions are made regarding more appropriate methods for assessing developmental changes in retention.