Constructing a test for evaluating semantic memory disorders in children from 6 to 10 years (TEMS)

Abstract

We show in this article is a field study is to build a test to assess memory
semantic and perturbations, to its importance as a function of knowledge is directly
correlated to the language and the representation of concepts, semantic and access
to the dictionary meaning of words and organization, as is the case for Alzheimer's
disease and other other mental illnesses where the suffering of people infected by
category of observant deficits in semantic memory and even some types of aphasia
and other neurological cognitive disorders, in order to reach a tool to assess the
cognitive function, the researcher to follow the required psychometric measures to
build the overall task of verification of the reliability and validity of the test
items, relying on theoretical concepts tests and long-term cognitive models for a
variety of sensory patterns and memory semantic memory. Calibration trial has
included a sample of 100 normal children, the average age ranges from 6 to 10
years, it contains the test on the nine items (item naming images, item identification
on the outskirts of the body,item classification and ranking semantic, item
understanding and functional linkage of sentences, item lexicon Semantic, judgment
item on the stuff by linking semantic, item liquidity verbal and semantic shredder,
item identification of the voices of the ocean, drawing item semantic router)
measure the same goal that developed for him and the memory of semantic and
patterns of organization and evaluate perturbations.
The study has been reached to build a test for assessing memory semantic and
linguistic environment discomfiture in Algerian Arabic and can be used in
university research circles and in hospital to diagnose some cognitive disorders
related to attention and public health.