Abstract

OIBERMAN, Alicia; ORELLANA, Liliana C  and  MANSILLA, Mariela. Evaluación de la inteligencia en bebés argentinos: Escala Argentina de Inteligencia Sensoriomotriz. Arch. argent. pediatr. [online]. 2006, vol.104, n.4, pp.316-324. ISSN 0325-0075.

The purpose of this work is to present a test, which allows the assessment of the behavior of our infants within the cognoscitive development area. 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 that involve perception, attitudes, tone and movements without symbolic evocations -that is, before the verbal language appears. The Argentine Scale of Sensory Motor Intelligence (EAIS) was created for babies aged from 6 to 24 months old. The scale was developed with 323 Argentine babies in order to determine the level of mental development during the non-verbal period, obtain standard figures of reference of the Argentine population, 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. Given the vulnerability of infants, their dependence on adults, the complexity of maturity and development processes, and the environment, the use of tests adapted or built with Argentine babies allow us to obtain standard reference values of the Argentine population to assess the intellectual development in 6 to 24 month old babies and diagnose cognitive disorders.

Keywords : Sensory-motor intelligence; Cognoscitive development.

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