title: [Difficulties in learning new ideas in children with specific mental disturbances].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Results of research on the learning of ideas by children with specific mental disturbances are presented in the article below. In the introduction, there are some psychological concepts related to the learning of ideas, and psychopathological concepts concerning the subject of research.
  
  
  METHODS
  In the further part of the article, Andrzej Lewicki's views are presented. His concept of abstraction (i.e. positive and negative abstraction) constitutes a development of classical views deriving from the Wurzburg school.
  
  
  RESULTS
  In the article, there are the results of a clinical experiment with regard to the learning of ideas, with the participation of 43 young, hospitalised patients in one of the Neuropsychiatric Hospitals for Children and Youths in the Mazowieckie Province, with the following diagnoses: behavioural disturbances, neurotic disturbances, psychotic disturbances, organic disorders. The young patients were aged from 8 to 16 years. It turned out that as far as quantity was concerned, the best quantitative results were achieved by young patients with diagnosed neurotic disturbances, and the worst results were characteristic for patients with psychotic disturbances.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The results turned out that the four groups compared had tendencies to make qualitatively different errors while learning new ideas during the clinical experiment.
authors: Wydział Psychologii WSFiZ w Warszawie, Katedra Opisowej Metodologii Badań Psychologicznych, Mazowieckie Centrum Neuropsychiatrii i Rehabilitacji Dzieci i Młodziezy w Zagórzu.
authors: Piotr
authors: P
authors: Panczyk
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002652:Child Behavior / Q000523:psychology; D002653:Child Behavior Disorders / Q000150:complications*; D002662:Child Health Services; D007174:Disruptive, Impulse Control, and Conduct Disorders / Q000150:complications*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007859:Learning Disabilities / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D008297:Male; D019964:Mood Disorders / Q000150:complications*