O desenvolvimento dos mecanismos atencionais em estudantes brasileiros do ensino fundamental

This study aimed to investigate the development of attention among Brazilian fundamental level students (levels I and II) from the city of Natal-RN/Brasil. A sample of 561 students took part in this study, with ages varying from seven to fourteen years; all participants had their attention processes...

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Veröffentlicht in:Avances en psicología latinoamericana 2013, Vol.31 (1), p.165-180
Hauptverfasser: Tarcíso da Rocha Falcão, Jorge, Lucena Diniz, Nathália, Maranhão, Samantha, Guerra, Amanda, Hazin, Izabel, Ferreira Garcia, Danielle, Cortez, Rodolpho
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Zusammenfassung:This study aimed to investigate the development of attention among Brazilian fundamental level students (levels I and II) from the city of Natal-RN/Brasil. A sample of 561 students took part in this study, with ages varying from seven to fourteen years; all participants had their attention processes evaluated by the Teste de Atenção por Cancelamento (Attention by Cancelling Test), proposed by Montiel e Capovilla (2007). Data issued from this procedure showed an ascending pattern related to school level for participants performance in accuracy and speed for tasks evaluating selectivity and alternation. School level as independent variable led to statistically significant contrasts concerning participants performance (p < 0.05), allowing to conclude that this performance should be related to that variable, together with neurological development. Performance related to alternate and selective attention increased significantly through the three first years of fundamental level; performance in selective attention, specifically, was stabilized by the three last years of fundamental level, which suggests the occurrence of a developmental plateau of this attention mechanism by this period; finally, data related to performance in alternation showed a maintained, continuous ascending pattern, which can be explained by the fact that important maturational and neurodevelopmental processes in executive attention processes has yet to occur by this period of life.s O presente estudo teve como objetivo investigar o desenvolvimento da atenção em estudantes do ensino fundamental I e II da cidade de Natal-RN/Brasil. Participaram do estudo 561 sujeitos, com idades entre sete e 14 anos, os quais tiveram os mecanismos atencionais avaliados pelo Teste de Atenção por Cancelamento de Montiel e Capovilla (2007). Em termos de acurácia e velocidade em tarefas que avaliam a seletividade e alternância, verificou-se que a curva de desempenho dos participantes apresentou padrão ascendente em função do nível de escolaridade. Esta variável foi responsável por contrastes estatisticamente significativos (p < .05) no que concerne ao desempenho dos participantes, sugerindo que o padrão ascendente verificado encontra-se subsidiado pelo nível de escolaridade e pela etapa do neurodesenvolvimento na qual se encontram. No que se refere à atenção seletiva e alternada, constatou-se aumento significativo no desempenho nas três primeiras séries do ensino fundamental; no que se refere à atenção seletiva
ISSN:1794-4724