Relação entre Memória de Trabalho e Desempenho Escolar de alunos do ensino médio.

Abstract

The objective of this study was to analyse the relation between the working memory and the school performance in High School through the Experimental Psycholinguistics. The mental processes underlying the formation and consolidation of cognition are fundamental to the progression of students in basic education. One of these processes, that is, the working memory, is important to deal with the multiplicity and flexibility of information, temporary maintenance and independence in tasks related to the processing of information that leads to knowledge. To investigate the role of working memory in school performance, we applied the working memory span test technique, correlating the scores obtained with the school grades of students in the three High School grades of a public school in the city of João Pessoa / PB. The technique was applied to 90 Brazilian-speaking students, seeking to correlate memory capacity with school performance. The results showed a positive correlation between these two points, pointing to an influence of working memory in the construction of expressive learning.