THE RELATIONSHIP PARAMETERS OF WORKING MEMORY WITH JUNIOR SCHOOLCHILDREN’S LEARNING SUCCESS
Abstract
The comparative analysis of recent research on the issue of the relations between performance of working memory and a fluid intelligence is shown in the article. The overview of the little-known model in the national psychology of working memory by Alan Baddeley is discussed, the particular attention to the main approaches to the development of the working memory is given, and the practice of the development of children’s fluid intelligence by the method of training the volume of working memory is highlighted. Two opposite positions on the development opportunities of fluid intelligence are revealed and the reasoning of both sides is considered. The conclusion of the necessity of spending the ascertaining empirical investigation of the relations between performance of the model elements of working memory by A. Baddeley with the indicators of mental development is summarized. Because of the assessment of mental development through the matrix of texts on intelligence is caused sufficiently reasoned criticism, the assessment of the relationship of working memory performance indicators with the ones of academic achievement of younger students was proposed. In the absence of standardized assessment methods five experimental treatments have been developed that were aimed to assess the various elements of the model of working memory. Sample of the empirical study consisted of 60 schoolchildren of third forms. As a result of the correlation analysis of the results revealed a number of statistically significant correlations between the results of the tasks to diagnose the level of mnemonic abilities and academic achievement in mathematics and language. It is shown that between 33 % and 72 % differences in success between junior schoolchildren on specific subjects can be explained by differences between the results of mnemonic activity. The importance of the degree of mnemonic skills for academic performance and the need to find and test the methods of their development is concluded.
Keywords: working memory model A. Baddeley, fluid intelligence development, junior schoolchildren.
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