thesis

Comprehension et memorisation de recit chez l'enfant : effet de l'origine sociale

Defense date:

Jan. 1, 1986

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Institution:

Paris 8

Disciplines:

Psychology

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Abstract EN:

This research establishes the existence of differences bound to social origin in the semantic treatment of stories. From the age of 5, children coming from disadvantaged class recall less information than their peers of the advantaged class. These differences are likely to be attributed to definite cognitive processes and structures occuring in the treatment : -socially contrasted groups construct for a given story meanings differing in their coherence characteristics (number of interpropositional relations established in, causal ones particularly). - children of disadvantaged class have less easy access to information stored in memory. Reverse to their peers of advantaged class, they seem not to use the macrostructure as a retrie- val system to guide access.

Abstract FR:

Cette recherche etablit l'existence de differences liees a l'origine sociale dans le traitement semantique du recit. Des 5 ans, les enfants issus du milieu defavorise rappellent moins d'informations que leurs pairs du milieu favorise. Ces differences peuvent etre attribuees a des processus et structures cognitifs precis intervenant dans le traitement : - les groupes sociallement contrastes construisent pour un recit donne des significations qui different par leurs caracteristiques de coherence (nombre de relations interpropositionnelles, par- ticulierement causales, qui y sont etablies). -les enfants du milieu defavorise accedent moins facilement a l'information stockee en memoire. A l'inverse de leurs pairs du milieu favorise, ils n'utilisent pas la macrostructure comme systeme de recou- vrement pour guider l'acces.