نشریه روانشناسی شناختی
سال یازدهم شماره 3 (پیاپی 37، پاییز 1402)

The purpose of this study was to compare the effectiveness of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) and short-term cognitive rehabilitation protocol on Symptoms of hallucinations and delusions in the elderly with mild Alzheimer's disease. The research method was an extended experiment with two experimental groups and one control group, which was conducted using the pre-test and post-test method. The statistical population included all elderly people over 65 years of age with mild Alzheimer's who had referred to a neurologist in 1401, and among these people, 60 people were selected by available sampling and then randomly. They were assigned in two experimental groups and one control group (20 people in each group). Then, the independent variables of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) for 10 sessions of 20 minutes once a week on an experimental group and a short-term cognitive rehabilitation program for 9 sessions (90 minutes each session) It was designed according to the documentary method and based on Luria's (1963) healthy function replacement approach, and after confirming the validity of the content by experts, it was applied to the second experimental group once a week, and no intervention was performed on the third group. After the end of the intervention, the post-test was conducted with an interval of one week on the experimental and control groups. After one month, the studied groups were followed up again. Neuropsychological Questionnaire (NPI) was used to collect data. The results showed that both methods improve hallucination symptoms in the elderly with mild Alzheimer's and there is no significant difference between the effectiveness of these two methods. while they had no significant effect on the delusion variable. Therefore, it can be concluded that both methods can be used to improve hallucinations in the elderly with mild Alzheimer's disease.

The aim of this study was to examine the impact of interactive simulation on students perceived motivational climate and emotional self-awareness. The research method was quasi-experimental and of the type of pre-test-post-test designs with the control group. The statistical community of the present study was all the fourth elementary students of the 12th District of Tehran in the academic year 2022-2021, 60 of whom (30 of the test group and 30 of the control group) were selected as samples by the available sampling method. The experimental group trained using PhET simulation and the traditional control group in six one-hour sessions. The pre-test-the post-test of the two groups was performed using the questionnaire. Research tools included the sarmed perceived motivational climate questionnaire (2011) and Kauer et al emotional self-awareness (2012). The analysis of the research data was done with a multivariate covariance analysis test. The findings of the study showed that interactive simulation influenced the perceived motivational climate and emotional self-awareness in students (P<0/001). Interactive simulation on the components of perceived motivational climate (teacher-led learning, follow-up of comparison by students, concerns about mistakes, willingness to compare learners by teacher) had an impact (P<0/001). Interactive simulation influenced the components of emotional self-awareness (recognition, identification, conversion, problem solving) (P<0/001). As a result, a variety of educational simulations can be used to teach learners in other subjects and study districts.

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the role of psychological well-being on academic burnout through the mediation of achievement goals.

The method of the current research was the correlation design through structural equation modeling. The statistical population included all students of psychology and educational sciences of the Faculty of Humanities, Islamic Azad University of Qom in the academic year 2019-1400, who were selected by available sampling method in the number of 440 people. In order to collect data, three questionnaires were used: Moslesh's academic burnout, Rif's psychological well-being, and Midgley's and colleagues' progress goals. Pearson correlation coefficients and structural equation modeling were used for data analysis.

The findings showed that psychological well-being with a standard coefficient of 0.60 was effective on goal orientation and with a standard coefficient of -0.25 on academic burnout. Also, goal orientation with a standard coefficient of -0.55 was effective on academic burnout. All effects were significant at P>0.001 level. The results showed that psychological well-being has an effect on academic burnout through the mediation of achievement goals.

In order to reduce academic burnout, it is suggested to the experts in the field of education to pay special attention to the components of psychological well-being and goal orientation in students.

The purpose of this research was to develop and validate the educational package of cognitive-emotional empowerment and its effectiveness on working memory and emotional recognition of sixth grade female students. The research method is considered to be fundamental and applied in terms of its purpose, and the research is considered to be hybrid-exploratory. The statistical population of the research in the qualitative part included Persian and English specialized books and articles in the field of cognitive-emotional empowerment in the last 20 years, which were selected by the purposeful sampling method of the sample group. Then the components of cognitive-emotional empowerment were extracted and coded with the qualitative method of thematic analysis. Finally, the package of cognitive-emotional empowerment was compiled during twelve sessions and its formal and content validity was confirmed by experts. The research method in the quantitative part was a semi-experimental type with a pre-test-post-test design with a control group. The statistical population of this research includes all the female students of the sixth grade of elementary school in 1400-1401 who were studying in schools in Tehran. The sample size includes 30 people from the statistical population selected by available sampling method and they were placed in two control and experimental groups. For the experimental group, the developed program of cognitive-emotional empowerment was implemented, while the control group did not receive training. The research tools included numerical span test (Wechsler, 2003) and facial emotion recognition test (Ekman and Friesen, 2003). The results showed that the cognitive-emotional empowerment intervention had a significant effect on improving working memory and emotional recognition in the post-test and follow-up stages.

This paper aims to investigate the impact of working memory capacity and excessive cognitive load on people's confidence after solving the Tower of Hanoi puzzle. For this purpose, two groups with different levels of cognitive load were formed for the study, and Iranian students in the age range of 20 to 40 years from universities in Tehran province were included in this study. After assessing working memory capacity, subjects in both groups solved the computerized version of the Tower of Hanoi problem. At the end, through a questionnaire that was designed and made for this study, they evaluated their confidence in their performance. This study started in 2019 and ended after one and a half years. However, the study did not find any relationship between the capacity of their visual-spatial working memory and their self-confidence, either alone or in interaction with the cognitive load, but there is a two-way relationship between bearing additional cognitive load and increasing final confidence. Therefore, people who bear more cognitive load are more confident about their cognitive performance at the end of the Tower of Hanoi problem-solving process.

The aim of this research was to investigate and compare the effectiveness of attributional retraining program, emotion regulation and cognitive-social problem solving on Improvement of social adjustment and reduction of academic burnout in Students with early learning disabilities in Tehran.

This was a quasi-experimental study with pretest-posttest, and follow-up.The participants consisted of 40 students with learning disability of 8 to 12 years old.They were selected through Simple random sampling and randomly divided into 3 experimental groups and a control group. attributional retraining, emotion regulation and social-cognitive problem solving training were presented in 8 sessions, each lasting 1 hours, in the 3 experimental groups. Brosu et al. academic burnout Questionnaire and Sinha and Sing Social Adjustment questionnaire were used in the pretest, posttest, and follow-up stages. The data were analyzed using MANCOVA, ANCOVA.

The results showed that attributional retraining, emotion regulation and social-cognitive problem solving training caused a significant increase in social adjustment and a significant decrease in academic burnout. In addition the emotional regulation and cognitive-social problem solving programs were more effective with the same effect than the attributional retraining program in increasing social adjustment.

the use of the present research results can be effective in the designing of preventive educational programs and improving educational achievements.

The purpose of the present study is to investigate the relationship between the presentation of the causal model of perception of the electronic (virtual) learning environment and reflective thinking with regard to the mediating role of cognitive flexibility among the students of Payam Noor University in Shiraz. This research is descriptive and correlational. For this purpose, using simple random sampling, 400 students were selected as a statistical sample from all the students of Payam Noor University, Shiraz center, and questionnaires of perceptions from the educational environment of Sweeney et al. (1994), reflective thinking by Kamber et al. Cognitive flexibility questionnaire (CFI) was completed by Dennis and Vanderwaal (2010). All questionnaires are standard and have validity and reliability (alpha higher than 0.70). The collected data were analyzed with the help of Lisrel software. The results of the research showed that the direct and positive effect of engagement in academic assignments, learning authenticity and feeling of membership on the components of cognitive flexibility (perception of controllability, perception of behavior justification and perception of different options) is significant. Also, the direct and positive effect of the feeling of support on the components of the perception of controllability and the perception of different options is significant. In addition, the direct and positive effect of the sense of ownership on the component of the perception of the justification of behavior is significant. The direct and positive effect of flexibility components on reflective thinking is also significant. Also, the results showed that, in general, the mediating role of cognitive flexibility components is significant in the relationship between the perception of the educational environment and students' reflective thinking.