Intelligence Assessment of Argentine babies: Argentine Scale of Sensory Motor Intelligence ? EAIS

ALICIA OIBERMAN, LILIANA ORELLANA, MANSILLA MARIELA

Paris

Congreso; 28 International Congress of Applied Psychology (ICAP 2014); 2014

International Association of Applied Psychology

he purpose of this work is to present a test which allows the assessment of the behavior of our infants from a consecutive development approach. There are two main periods in the development of intelligence: before and after the constitution of the symbolic (or semiotic) function, which appears within the age of 16 and 20 months old. The first period is called sensory motor intelligence. The sensory motor intelligence is the ability to solve problems through activities in which perception, attitudes, tone and movements without symbolic evocations ? that is, before the verbal language appears ? are mainly part of. The Argentine Scale of Sensory Motor Intelligence (EAIS) was created for babies aged from 6 to 24 months old. This scale was built considering 323 Argentine babies in order to know the level of mental development during the non-verbal period, obtain standard figures of reference of the Argentine population and contribute with a useful as well as effective tool to diagnose the intellectual development of Argentine babies aged from 6 to 24 months old and detect cognitive disorders.