Caracterización de procesos cognitivos de memoria, lenguaje y pensamiento, en estudiantes con bajo y alto rendimiento académico: Memory, Language and Thought in Students with Low and High Academic Achievement

this paper presents a characterization of the processes of memory, language and thought of four groups of students with low, medium, high and higher academic achievement among first and fifth grade, aged between 6 and 11 years, in an educational center in bogotá-colombia. to 10 sub-tests of the wisc-iv were applied, to describe these processes. academic performance was corroborated by school reports. the results were processed using spss-19, anova and tukey's dhs. the most influential aspect is the verbal comprehension scores with a correlation of .718; followed by perceptual reasoning with a correlation of .659, and finally the working memory with a correlation of .577.