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Acta de investigación psicológica

On-line version ISSN 2007-4719Print version ISSN 2007-4832

Abstract

MORALES SUAREZ, Alejandra  and  RINCON LOZADA, Carlos Francisco. Neuropsychological relationship between maturity and presence-absence of crawling behavior. Acta de investigación psicol [online]. 2016, vol.6, n.2, pp.2450-2458. ISSN 2007-4719.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aipprr.2016.06.008.

Neuropsychological maturity is the level of organization and maturational development that allows the development of behavioral and cognitive age-appropriate individual functions, crawling behavior is the first harmonic motion in which the baby uses his head and his both lower extremities as superior, to support and move, it allows the establishment of connections between brain hemispheres, leading to the intercom that simplifies the work of the brain and promotes the maturation of the cognitive functions of the infant, the objective of this research was compare neuropsychological maturity in children 5 and 6 years of age who presented behavior crawling with those who had not, the sample consisted of 50 students from private schools in central Colombia. It was a quantitative study with a comparative-descriptive cross-sectional design, in which the history and the parent questionnaire battery neuropsychological evaluation Infantil (ENI) developed by Matute, Rosselli, Ardila y Ostrosky (2007) and was used Maturity Questionnaire Neuropsychological Children (CUMANIN). First, he made the selected sample, the instruments are applied, and the results were analyzed and finally publicly sustained research. It was concluded through statistical Wilcoxon Shapiro applied to compare the scores of the two groups possibly psychomotor scale depends on crawling; regarding the performance when comparing the 2 groups with the Chi-square statistic best results are evidenced in nine scales the group presented crawling behavior with respect to the group that did not crawl.

Keywords : Neuropsychological maturity; Crawling behavior; Early childhood; Motor skills; Cognitive processes.

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