Program of logical reasoning games to stimulate the concrete operations in children from Huancayo

Abstract

Objectives: To determinate the effects of the application of logical reasoning games program to stimulate the concrete operations in children of second grade in primary education that they were attended at the psychological private consulting room in Huancayo city. Methods:It has been done the application of significant activities of teaching and learning, systematically organized; which considered the following dimensions: seriation, classification and conservation games. During 22 sessions were done three times per week. To determine the domain of the dexterities, it was appealed to the psicopedagogic battery "Forcab". To prove that the program of games improve or not the concrete operations in children was used the Wilcoxon test for related samples, parametric test equivalent to the "t" student, being able to conclude that the seriation, classification and conservation games helped to increase the concrete operations of children. Results: Differences statistically significant exist among the scores of the evaluation pre and post experimental, which was demonstrated that it is possible improve the cognitive processes in children of 7 and 8 years old. Conclusions: It is demonstrated that it is possible improve the cognitive processes in children of 7 and 8 years old. The application of the experimental program of stimulation in the cognitive processes improved the develop of concrete operations significantly in children. Also, it is possible design a program to improve part of the intellectual development like they are the concrete operations, through their stimulation.