Features of thinking in persons in adulthood with mental retardation

Zaitsev D. V., Khaidov S. K.

The article is a study of the features of the development of thinking in adults with mental retardation, who are in a psycho-neurological boarding school. The paper presents data from a diagnostic study of thinking in people aged 33–45 in terms of analysis and synthesis operations, categorical thinking, the ability to build connections, general everyday knowledge and understanding of figurative meaning.

Keywords:mental retardation, thinking, mature age, psychodiagnostics, defectology, higher mental functions.