Análise microgenética de aspectos do funcionamento cognitivo de adolescentes e de idosas por meio do jogo quoridor

• Autor(a) principal: Santos, Claudimara Chisté
• Data de Publicação: 2007
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (riUfes)
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.ufes.br/handle/10/6669
• topic: Cognitive functioning; Consciousness awakening; Game of rules; Adolescence; Ageing; Funcionamento cognitivo; Tomada de consciência; Jogos de regras; Adolescência; Envelhecimento; Psicologia; Desenvolvimento cognitivo; Jogos; 159.9

The objective of this work was to investigate on a micro genetic perspective, aspects of the cognitive functioning of female elders and of adolescents, through the Quoridor game based on Piaget s theory. The process of consciousness awakening (TC) was the theoretical aspect on which this study was based, and of which four adolescents took part, their age group between 16 and 17 years old, and four elderly women between 65 and 76 years old. The research was developed in five stages: on the first one, a semi-structured interview was made aiming for information about the participants, and the application of two psychometric tests to complement the data relative to memory and emotional adjustment. On the second stage each participant played three sets of the game together with the expert, aiming at knowledge, and at the identification of the initial strategies used by them. On the third stage, a championship was held in which the participants of a same age group, played amongst them with the purpose of practicing the game. On the fourth stage, besides the participants having played three sets with a same age adversary, the more complex and/or the longest set was chosen, so as to investigate the TC process with the aid of an adaptation of the autos copy technique. On the fifth stage, four problemsituations were proposed to each participant so as to complement the analysis of the level of comprehension of the game (NCJ). In order to analyze the mechanisms of consciousness awakening, evaluative levels were elaborated adapted to the Quoridor game, as based on Piaget s propositions: I/A, I/B, II/A, II/B, II/C, III, the first two referring to peripheral TC, and the rest, related to TC with a tendency for centralization. In order to analyze the mechanisms of consciousness awakening, the following levels were elaborated based on the data obtained at the pilot-study: I, II/A, II/B, III/A, and III/B. The results obtained in relation to TC allowed us to verify that: (1) on the adolescent s group, a participant reached level II/A, and three of them, level II/B, and (2) on the elderly women group, two participants reached level II/C, one of them the II/B level, and the other the II/A level. It was thus observed that two older women reached higher levels than the rest of the participants. As for the NCJ, two adolescents reached level II/A, and two of them, level II/B, whereas an older woman reached level III/A, two of them reached level II/B, and one didn t evolve, remaining on level. The results point out to present paragons adopted by the development theoreticians: there is an individual variance multi-determined by genetic and environmental factors, such as proposed by Piaget.