Cognitive Neuropsychological Program and Its Effect in Improving Interhemispheric Transfer Time and Attentional Control for Faculty of Education Students, Alexandria University

Mansy, Mahmoud Abd Elhalim; Frrag, Mohamed Anwar; Ahmed, Amina Omar Mohamed Sayed

doi:10.21608/jealex.2022.229347

Cognitive Neuropsychological Program and Its Effect in Improving Interhemispheric Transfer Time and Attentional Control for Faculty of Education Students, Alexandria University

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

¹ Professor of Educational Psychology - Faculty of Education - Alexandria University.

² Professor of Educational Psychology and Dean of the Faculty of Education - Alexandria University.

³ Lecturer, Department of Educational Psychology - Faculty of Education - Alexandria University.

10.21608/jealex.2022.229347

Abstract

The current research aims experimentally to identify the effect of a Neuropsychological Program based on the PASS theory in improving the Interhemispheric Transfer Time, and Performance Attentional Control through E-Prime software as well as self-assessed Attentional Control, As well as a descriptive to explanation of the relationship between Performance and self-assessed Attentional Control, it also aims qualitatively to study the case of students with extreme degrees of Interhemispheric Transfer Time, Performance and self-assessed Attentional Control, for Faculty of Education Students, Alexandria University (N=240), The experimental study, using Gain Scores Analysis found that there were statistically significant differences between the mean Gain Scores of the pre and post measurements for the interhemispheric transfer time, performing and self- assessed attentional control in favor of Gain Score in the experimental group, Repeated Measures ANOVA revealed that there were statistically significant differences between the mean scores of the experimental group in the pre-, post- and follow-up tests, for the interhemispheric transfer time (for images and words), and the performing attentional in favor of the pre measurement, As well as the self- assessed attentional control (focus and shift), in favor of the post measurement, The descriptive study also revealed that there were no statistically significant relationship between the performance attentional control and the self- assessed attentional control, the qualitative study found that there were psychological, cognitive, and social reasons behind the decrease and increase in interhemispheric transfer time and performance and self- assessed attentional control.

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