Deficient Cognitive Functions
The locus of the deficiencies resulting from the lack of mediated learning experience is peripheral rather than central, and reflects attitudinal and motivational deficiencies, lack of working habits and learning sets rather than structural and elaborational incapacities. Evidence of the reversibility of the phenomena has been provided by clinical and experimental work – especially through dynamic assessment (Learning Potential Assessment Device). The LPAD has also enabled us to establish an inventory of cognitive functions that are undeveloped, poorly developed, arrested and/or impaired. These we have categorized into the Input, Elaborational and Output Levels.
Impaired cognitive functions affecting the Input Level include those impairments concerning the quantity and quality of data gathered by the individual as he is confronted by a given problem, object, or experience. They include:
1- Blurred and sweeping perception.
2- Unplanned, impulsive, and unsystematic exploratory behavior.
3- Lack of, or impaired, receptive verbal tools which affect discrimination (e.g. objects, events, relationships, etc. do not have appropriate labels).
4- Lack of, or impaired, spatial orientation; the lack of stable systems of reference impairs the establishment of topological and Euclidean organization of space.
5- Lack of, or impaired, temporal concepts.
6- Lack of, or impaired, conservation of constancies (size, shape, quantity, orientation) across variation in these factors.
7- Lack of, or deficient, need for precision and accuracy in data gathering.
8- Lack of capacity for considering two or more sources of information at once; this is reflected in dealing with data in a piecemeal fashion, rather than as a unit of organized facts.
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