Adaptation of Variable Card Sorting Test to assess the cognitive flexibility of children For philipe zelazo in the Algerian Environment

Abstract

This study aims to present the protocol for the basic version and the complex version (border version) of the variable-dimensional card sorting test after translating the instruction and applying it in the Algerian environment, and passing it on a sample of 80 children whose ages range between (3 and 7 years), the results showed The majority of children between 3 and 4 years make mistakes in the post-switching stage, unlike those with 4 and 5 years who succeed in this task, but most of them fail in the border version. As for the category of 5 and 7 years, most of them succeed in the test in its three stages, as the results showed. There is also a correlation between age and the dimensions of the test, where the correlation was estimated between the dimension of colors and children (3-4 years) with 0.51, and between the dimension of shapes and children of (4-5) years with 0.85. ) years by 0.86, and this explains the performance of children according to their age stages