Memory and metamemory were examined in 30 hyperactive and 30 nonhyperactive children matched on age, grade, and IQ (as measured by the Vocabulary and the Block Design subtests of the WISC-R), within the context of a broad range of tasks. The five tasks investigated in this study were: (a) a prospective memory task, (b) a feeling-of-knowing task, a visual retention task, (c) a word generation task, (d) and (e) an object span and recall task. Previous research has demonstrated considerable variability in the performance of hyperactive children on memory tasks. They have been shown to perform as well as normal children on tasks of cued recall, paired associates for meaningful words, and on tests of recognition memory. They are distinguished from normal children by their poor performance on tasks of uncued recall, paired associates learning for semantically unrelated words, and in addition, often display performance decrements when task demands increase. The results of this study suggest that hyperactive children are less efficient in metamemory knowledge and skills than normal children. These findings are consistent with the proposal that the difficulties hyperactive children demonstrate on memory tasks may result from a deficiency in their ability to efficiently engage in metamemory processes. The hyperactive children in this study generally had more difficulty than the control children with recall on all the tasks. These included tests of both verbal and nonverbal memory, short and long-term memory, and prospective remembering. Further, they did not derive a memorial benefit, as the control subjects did, when generating their own recall items, or when recalling visual stimuli that could be more easily verbally encoded than others. The hyperactive subjects demonstrated their recall abilities by performing as well as the normal subjects on the recall of read words in the word generation task, and on the recall of the low and medium level of labelability items in the visual retention task. Also, the recall performance of the hyperactive subjects differed significantly between a no-strategy and a provided strategy condition on the prospective memory task. Moreover, there were no group differences on the recognition memory test of the feeling-of-knowing task. The results of this study are consistent with the previous investigations of memory performance in hyperactive children. The present findings further extend the past research by demonstrating selective memory deficits in the hyperactive subjects that are consistent with deficits in metamemory abilities. The proposition that metamemory skills are implicated in the difficulties that the hyperactive children demonstrated in this study is further supported by the difficulty they experienced in describing how they remembered the task items. The hyperactive subjects had more difficulty than the control subjects when attempting to describe a strategy that they used to aid recall. The strategies they described, relative to the control subjects, tended to be vague and poorly defined. These findings suggest that there may be both qualitative and quantitative differences in the way in which hyperactive and normal children use strategies. In summary, the findings of this study suggest that hyperactive children, relative to normal children, seem to be deficient in both their metamemory knowledge and the ability to monitor and control their memory performance. Questions addressing whether these children cannot or do not employ these skills were introduced. The clinical implications of the findings were considered and recommendations were made for future research. / Arts, Faculty of / Psychology, Department of / Graduate

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1976. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 141-150).

Submitted by SBI Biblioteca Digital (sbi.bibliotecadigital@puc-campinas.edu.br) on 2016-05-10T12:22:48Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Larissa Elizabeth de Barros Brito.pdf: 3056575 bytes, checksum: ed3a1c7cdba7841c932a1c4d32d1134a (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-05-10T12:22:48Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Larissa Elizabeth de Barros Brito.pdf: 3056575 bytes, checksum: ed3a1c7cdba7841c932a1c4d32d1134a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-02-24 / This is a survey about working with children's literature whose general objective is to investigate what children 5-6 years have to say from the readings of stories carried by the librarian and the teacher in Early Childhood Education class. From this, the following specific objectives were outlined: (i) investigate the influences and adult mediation contribution in the psychological development of children, working with children's literature in kindergarten; (Ii) analyze what children have to say from reading stories, identifying trends. As methodological procedures were used: semi-structured interviews with the teacher and the librarian; observation of the readings made by the librarian and teacher; collective and semi-structured interviews (with groups of two to five participants) with the children after the readings. Both the interviews and the observations were video-filmed in order to have the possibility of returning the scenes identifying gestures accompanying speech or even less clear conversations at the time of going to the field, and that the recordings preserved. In total we obtained for analysis: three moments of conversation / interview with the librarian and an interview with the teacher; nine video footage of readings taken; 18 interviews with groups of children; and 49 drawings produced by children during interviews. The empirical material was analyzed qualitatively, with basis in historical-cultural theory, focusing on the concepts of imagination and memory as psychic functions superiors in development in children and socially constituted. They were used as axes of analysis of the interviews with the children, and the observations of the readings: the narratives produced by children who retold the story; discussions in which participants put their views; experience reports; and invented narratives. At the end of the analysis we realized that the retelling of the story was not individually with each child, but rather was built by a collective memory of each group of children interviewed. We also note that post-reading moments in which the book is still holding material and imagination is instigated and allowed, are important to (re) signification and appropriation that children make the text. Moreover, one can realize that creative ideas, in which the children sought to incorporate new elements to the story, have become increasingly frequent over the interviews. We also point out that adults of mediations - the teacher, the librarian, the researcher - in each of the situations experienced by children participants, solicit, encourage and legitimize different statements and behavior of children, contributing in different ways to the children's psychological development. It was found that adult mediation, the way it handles text and leads reading can contribute more positively or less in the formation of memory and imagination of children, encouraging them to create or primarily reproduce. / Trata-se de uma pesquisa sobre o trabalho com a literatura infantil cujo objetivo geral ? investigar o que as crian?as de 5 a 6 anos t?m a dizer a partir das leituras de hist?rias realizadas pela bibliotec?ria e pela professora, numa turma de Educa??o Infantil. A partir deste, foram delineados os seguintes objetivos espec?ficos: (i) investigar as influ?ncias e contribui??o da media??o do adulto no desenvolvimento ps?quico das crian?as, no trabalho com a literatura infantil na Educa??o Infantil; (ii) analisar o que as crian?as t?m a dizer a partir das leituras de hist?rias, identificando tend?ncias. Como procedimentos metodol?gicos foram utilizados: entrevista semiestruturada com a professora e com a bibliotec?ria; observa??o das leituras realizadas pela bibliotec?ria e professora; e entrevistas semiestruturadas coletivas (com grupos de dois a cinco participantes) com as crian?as ap?s as leituras. Tanto as entrevistas quanto as observa??es foram v?deo-filmadas a fim de termos a possibilidade de retornar as cenas identificando gestos que acompanham falas ou mesmo conversas menos n?tidas no momento da ida a campo, e que as grava??es conservam. No total obtivemos para an?lise: tr?s momentos de conversa/entrevista com a bibliotec?ria e uma entrevista com a professora; nove v?deo-filmagens das leituras realizadas; 18 entrevistas com os grupos de crian?as; e 49 desenhos produzidos pelas crian?as durante as entrevistas. O material emp?rico foi analisado qualitativamente, com embasamento na teoria Hist?rico-cultural, com foco nos conceitos da imagina??o e da mem?ria como fun??es ps?quicas superiores em desenvolvimento nas crian?as e constitu?das socialmente. Foram utilizados como eixos de an?lise das entrevistas com as crian?as, bem como das observa??es das leituras: as narrativas produzidas pelas crian?as que recontavam a hist?ria; discuss?es nas quais os participantes colocavam seus pontos de vista; relatos de experi?ncia; e narrativas inventadas. Ao final das an?lises pudemos perceber que o recontar da hist?ria n?o se fazia individualmente com cada crian?a, mas sim era constru?do por uma mem?ria coletiva de cada grupo de crian?as entrevistadas. Pudemos notar tamb?m que momentos p?s-leitura, nos quais o livro ainda ? material de explora??o e a imagina??o ? instigada e permitida, s?o importantes para a (re)significa??o e apropria??o que as crian?as fazem do texto. Al?m disso, pode-se perceber que ideias criativas, nas quais as crian?as buscavam incorporar novos elementos ? hist?ria, tornaram-se cada vez mais frequentes com o decorrer das entrevistas. Destacamos ainda que as media??es dos adultos - a professora, a bibliotec?ria, a pesquisadora - em cada uma das situa??es vivenciadas pelas crian?as participantes da pesquisa, solicitam, estimulam e legitimam diferentes enunciados e comportamentos das crian?as, contribuindo de maneiras distintas para o desenvolvimento psicol?gico infantil. Foi poss?vel constatar que a media??o do adulto, o modo como ele lida com o texto e conduz a leitura pode contribuir mais positivamente ou menos na constitui??o da mem?ria e da imagina??o das crian?as, incentivando-as a criarem ou a, prioritariamente, reproduzirem.