Voluntary and Involuntary Memory in a Distribution of Attention in Children and Adolescents with Abnormal Development
The article is devoted to the experience of applying the technique to evaluate voluntary (arbitrary) and involuntary forms of visual verbal memory and attention in children and adolescents with normal development and in mental health pathology. Boys and girls were examined: 173 healthy subjects and 138 mentally ill patients of the MHRC (endogenous mental pathology) aged 7 to 16 years. Сommon features of healthy and mentally ill patients are shown in the dynamics of the parameters of activity (increase in memory capacity) and specific features when introducing motivating memory and attention (two directions), because there worked only one-way positive influence in the group of healthy children and adolescents. The clinical originality of the method with the working title “Memory + count” was discovered by children and adolescents with different variants of endogenous mental pathology. It is shown that the implementation of this technique by boys and girls in the control and clinical groups is unique.