METHOD FOR ASSESSING ABILITY OF PERSON BEING TESTED TO SYNTHESISE PREVIOUSLY FORMED PRE-VERBAL EMPIRICAL CONCEPTS Russian patent published in 2024 - IPC A61B5/16 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to neuropsychology, psychophysiology and comparative psychology. Samples are presented with sets of objects to form two or more separate concepts, each of which contains one supported feature. Fact of formation of each of the concepts is checked separately. Presenting a task for synthesis of concepts, each test of which has a new set, which includes at least two stimuli containing one feature from each of the previously formed concepts, a stimulus which does not contain features of these concepts, and, finally, a stimulus combining features of each of the formed concepts. Selection of the last stimulus is recorded as a fact of synthesis of formed concepts. Ability of the person being tested to synthesise concepts is assessed by comparing the rate of achieving 70% criterion of correct answers when synthesizing the previously formed concepts with the rate of forming a control concept based on two or more features.

EFFECT: method enables assessing the ability of the person being tested to synthesise previously formed pre-verbal empirical notions.

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