Póster: CONVERGENT VALIDITY OF PERCEPTUAL INHIBITION: COMPUTERIZED TASK OF PERCEPTUAL INHIBITION FROM ARGENTINA - pag. 20

RICHARD'S, MARÍA M; INTROZZI, I.; CANET JURIC, L.; GUÀRDIA, J.

Milán

Congreso; The 14th European Congress of Psychology; 2015

European Federation of Psychologists´ Associations (EFPA).

People are easily distracted by extraneous stimuli; but, how they affect these distracting stimuli in everyday life?. There is a process that studies these situations called Perceptual Inhibition, whose main function is to limit or prevent the entry of irrelevant information to the attentional focus. In recent years there has arisen the need to abandon the unitary approach for the inhibition leading to the tripartite approach which proposed a fragmentation into three inhibitory processes: perceptual, cognitive and behavioral. Based on this paradigm, we have designed and developed an integrated Perceptual Inhibition Task in a computerized assessment platform called Cognitive Self regulation Tasks TAC, which constitute a contribution to our context. The main objectives are: first, a) analyze the efficiency of the perceptual inhibition in a group of 106 children aged between 9 and 12 years of age in the city of Mar del Plata; and b) study the convergent validity of the performances of the inhibitory function of the TAC with those obtained in traditional tests Key and Symbol Search from the WISC-IV. Results show high correlations between the two tests, with increasing age of participants increased the percentage of correct answers and decreased the response times; is also observed in all conditions established (4, 8, 16 and 32 distractors). These findings have an impact on cognitive, emotional and behavioral self-regulation.