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Psicothema, 2010. Vol. Vol. 22 (nº 4). 772-777




Análisis del procesamiento en tareas tradicionalmente cognitivas y de teoría de la mente en niños de 4 y 5 años

María Consuelo Sáiz Manzanares, Miguel Ángel Carbonero-Martín* y Valle Flores Lucas*

Universidad de Burgos y * Universidad de Valladolid

Este estudio analiza el tipo de estrategias (atencionales, de lenguaje comprensivo y expresivo, planificación y metacognitivas) que niños de cuatro y cinco años emplean en la resolución de distintas tareas: conservación, clasificación y teoría de la mente (ToM). El tipo de respuesta a las tareas se ha observado con la escala de observacion de estrategias cognitivas y metacognitivas en la infancia. Encontramos diferencias significativas atendiendo a la variable edad en el empleo de estrategias atencionales en la ejecución de tareas de Teoría de la Mente (ToM), estrategias de lenguaje receptivo y expresivo en todas las tareas y estrategias metacognitivas en las tareas de ToM.

Types of responses in 4-5-year-old children in conservation, classification, and theory of mind tasks. This study analyzes the type of responses that children between 4 and 5 years of age give to different tasks: conservation, classification and tasks of the theory of mind (ToM). Types of responses were observed with the Observation of Cognitive and Meta-cognitive Skills Inventory, which identifies: attention, receptive and expressive language, planning processes, and meta-cognitive processes. Significant differences were found according to the variable age in: (a) the use of attentional strategies in performance of ToM tasks, (b) the use of receptive and expressive language in the performance of all tasks, (c) the use of planning processes in the performance of conservation tasks; and (d) the use of meta-cognitive processes to solve ToM tasks.

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