COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE FUNCTIONS OF THE FRONT PARTS OF THE BRAIN OF PRESCHOOLERS BROUGHT UP IN THE FAMILIES WITH DIFFERENT LEVELS OF MATERIAL INCOME

Abstract

The modern situation of society development requires considering new family factors that affect the psychological development of the child. One of them is the family wealth. The aim of the study was to compare the functions of the front parts of the brain of preschoolers brought up in the families with different wealth levels. The functions of the front parts of the brain are connected with the third block of the brain which is the block of programming, regulation and control, as well as that of the serial organization of movements. The methods of neuropsychological examination developed by A. R. Luriya and provided with a quantitative assessment of the group of authors headed by T. V. Ahutina were used in this research. In the empirical study we examined the difference between the functions of the front parts of the brain of preschoolers brought up in the families with high, medium and low wealth level. The results indicate the differences in the maturity degree of the functions of the front parts of the brain of the children brought up in the families with different wealth levels. Namely, the influence of the family wealth on the development of the functions of the front parts of the brain is linear: the higher the family wealth is, the better the performance of the functions of the front parts of the brain of preschoolers is.

Keywords

• socio-economic status
• family wealth
• functions of the front parts of the brain
• programming functions of regulation and control
• serial organization of movements
• neuropsychological tests