Analogical reasoning and working memory in students with intellectual disability : effects of actively constructing the response on a touch screen

Diplôme Thèse Analogical reasoning and working memory in students with intellectual disability : effects of actively constructing the response on a touch screen eng 2011-10-17 author Denaes Caroline 523720 director Büchel Fredi 22703 director Betrancourt Mireille 0000-0001-7144-167X 133865 10.13097/archive-ouverte/unige:17361 urn:nbn:ch:unige-173612 FPSE 484 This thesis project focused on the evaluation of a memory overload hypothesis in analogical reasoning tasks. It is said that individuals with moderate intellectual disability (mental age: 4-7) are confronted to a memory overload when they have to treat several relations at the same time in analogical matrices. In order to test this assumption, we created a computerized test using a touch screen, the Revised - Construction of Analogical Matrices Test (CAM-R), composed of a construction version, supposed to unload the memory, and a control version, supposed to overload the memory. As expected, memory abilities played a crucial role in the classic version and less in the construction version. Our results strongly indicated that, with the support of external memories, participants with moderate intellectual disability obtained better performances than without such support, and were able to reach a similar level of performance as typically developing children of the same mental age. Analogical reasoning Working memory Touch screen computer Intellectual disability Dewey 370 109 Section des sciences de l'éducation 72 false e55ca1a0-9b0e-4cc7-a3d6-1d5fb88ca614 Thesis Public THESIS FINAL JURY.pdf 1524367 application/pdf d6665347-6276-4dbf-a0a3-d42641302e9f Appendix Public Appendices.pdf 5227890 application/pdf openAccess Faculté de psychologie et des sciences de l'éducation / Section des sciences de l'éducation

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