Cognitive Capacity in Bajo’s Children

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10.2991/assehr.k.200529.127How to use a DOI?

Keywords

cognitive capacity, children, academic

Abstract

Cognitive capacity is an important concern to be explored in children who live in rural areas. The academic success of students in schools is the goal of why it is necessary to focus on these cognitive aspects. The purpose of this study is to describe working memory capacity, fluid intelligence, and working memory capacity based on fluid intelligence. Research subjects are 30 students of Bajo tribe who are in fourth grade elementary school. In measuring working memory using backward digit span and fluid intelligence, researchers use coloured progressive matrices (CPM). The results showed that the capacity of working memory from most of the subjects were classified as moderate and low, while fluid intelligence was generally classified as average and below average, but there were three subjects classified as above average. In fact, fluid intelligence is not always an indicator of working memory capacity. The implications of this study consider the cognitive aspects of working memory as predictors of academic success.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Nani Restati Siregar
AU  - Muhammad Ilham
AU  - Mansyur
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/05/04
TI  - Cognitive Capacity in Bajo’s Children
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st Borobudur International Symposium on Humanities, Economics and Social Sciences (BIS-HESS 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 607
EP  - 610
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200529.127
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200529.127
ID  - Siregar2020
ER  -