Combined inhibition and social cognition classroom training program

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Evidence · 4 claims (3 for, 1 mixed) · 2 studies (2 causal), q3 · 1 of 2 report an effect size · 3 claims rest on one study

Description

A classroom training programme for kindergarten and first-grade children that combines inhibition and executive-function activities with Theory of Mind and social-information-processing activities, delivered through 18 weekly sessions by a trained psychologist with teacher follow-up.

Components

• Combined inhibition and social cognition classroom training program (18 weekly sessions with metacognitive characters): A manualized classroom program of "eighteen 45-min sessions implemented in the classroom in the presence of the teacher", delivered once a week over 6 months by a trained psychologist. It trains four inhibition components (predominant response, interruption of an ongoing response, external distractors, impulsivity control) through three metacognitive characters — Mr. Stop, the Detective and the Statue — plus ToM and SIP activities of increasing difficulty, with weekly teacher follow-up activities and record books. (Honoré N et al. (2020))
• Combine inhibition and social cognition content in a single classroom-delivered EF training for young children: The article argues that because inhibition and social cognition are interdependent — perspective taking requires inhibitory control and both recruit the frontal lobe — a training program should address both together. It states that "it seems important to address social and emotional issues in an EF training program", and implemented this by pairing inhibition games with ToM and SIP activities in each of the 18 classroom sessions. (Honoré N et al. (2020))

Claims

• A combined inhibition and social cognition classroom training improves selective visual attention in 5- and 6-year-olds [+M]
• The classroom training improves inhibitory control as measured by the Tongue Task [+M]
• The classroom training improves Theory of Mind performance [+M]
• The training shows no significant transfer to academic learning tasks, with only a marginal post-test advantage in number conservation [~M]

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Key Sources

• Honoré N, Houssa M, Volckaert A, Noël M-P and Nader-Grosbois N (2020) Training Inhibition and Social Cognition in the Classrooms. Front. Psychol. 11:1974. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01974

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