Each parent is concerned about the health of the child. Due to the current environmental situation in the world, the growth of social and economic tensions in countries, public life is taking more and more health and vitality not only from adults, but also from children.
Well- known psychologists began to fight for diagnosis and, therefore, to overcome the main problems associated with impaired activity of mental processes , one of which is B. Bourdon. According to this famous specialist, concentration of attention plays a crucial role in the personal and especially in the professional life of each person. In the process of our existence, we get acquainted with new sources of knowledge, we learn about various phenomena, processes and concepts that help our worldview and contribute to the development of intelligence.
But what to do if a child or an adult cannot concentrate on an object of interest? Suppose you have a hobby to which you spend your free time with pleasure, but poor concentration does not allow you to fix key moments in your memory and remember important facts. This becomes the basis for frustration, depression and self-doubt. To overcome this problem, the scientist B. Bourdon created a technique called “Corrective Test” that promotes the development of attention and concentration in children and adults.
This technique appeared in 1895. You may ask: what is its specificity? As it turned out, it is painfully simple: the test subject sees a table in front of him, where Russian letters are arranged in a random order. In addition, the columns in the table are also sufficient. The assignment indicates that the subject in 10 minutes. must cross out letters in the whole table, for example, “y” and “l”. When the time report has gone, all the required letters in the table should be marked. After ten minutes, the calculation of the results begins.
As practice shows, the “Corrective Test” methodology was able to help a large number of children who need to increase the level of attention. After several exercises, children began to show better results in schools, colleges, gymnasiums. But do not think that such a test task called “Corrective Test” is present only in its single copy. Many followers of the scientist B. Bourdon decided to continue and improve the methodology, having come up with several options for the task. So, Anfimov in 1908 created a literal variation of this assignment. The achievements did not end there - the "Corrective Test" methodology was modernized by Amatuni, who in 1969 created a digital version of this assignment. And finally, the last one who decided to supplement the arsenal of test tasks for children was Landolt, who compiled a test task with rings.
At first glance, many immediately get confused when they present a table with rings: what should be crossed out? The author of this test created rings with various gaps in different directions. Therefore, the subject receives the task of finding and crossing out the rings with a gap, for example, on the right side. As practice shows, a proof test is also suitable for young children (mainly this is Landolt's version). You will be surprised, but this method of “Corrective test” is also used in clinics, as well as during professional psychodiagnostics.
Many people ask a question about how the results of the “Corrective Test” method are processed. When checking your results, the main thing they pay attention to is your speed and accuracy of the task. Let's stop at speed: here they check how much time you looked at each letter row and the whole table as a whole. With regard to accuracy, the number of errors that the subject made during the entire time of the test task is calculated here.
As you can see, the essence of the methodology is very simple and proof-reading for children will help to quickly, accurately and, most importantly, qualitatively determine how attentive your child is. If the result is negative, you can repeat this technique several times until the results increase. Good luck in your work!