Analogical Reasoning in Adolescents with Intellectual Disability: Effects of External Memories and Time Processing

Autor/inn/en	Denaes, Caroline; Berger, Jean-Louis
Titel	Analogical Reasoning in Adolescents with Intellectual Disability: Effects of External Memories and Time Processing
Quelle	In: Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs, 14 (2014) 2, S.82-95 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1471-3802
DOI	10.1111/1471-3802.12007
Schlagwörter	Logical Thinking; Adolescents; Visual Aids; Memory; Pictorial Stimuli; Cues; Moderate Mental Retardation; Comparative Analysis + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Anschauungsmaterial; Gedächtnis; Fantasieanregung; Stichwort
Abstract	Analogical reasoning involves the comparison of pictures as well as the memorisation of relations. Young children (4-7 years old) and students with moderate intellectual disability have a short memory span, which hampers them in succeeding traditional analogical tests. In the present study, we investigated if, by providing external memory hints, the visual aid could enable these participants to succeed in analogies comprising more relations than their memory span was able to manage. Our analogical test, composed of 2 × 2 matrices, was administered in two versions: the standard version, similar to traditional tests, required the participant to memorise all the relations involved in order to discover the solution, whereas the construction version required him/her to construct the answer part by part by using external memories, which potentially increased success by offloading the memory. Our results show that students with moderate intellectual disability reached results similar to typically developing control children when provided with external memory hints (referred to as external memories). Moreover, in the most complex levels of the test, they did not spend more time than control children in solving the analogies. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10