Poster Presentation

Paper ID : 1516-SSRC

¹Associate professor, department of motor behaviour, faculty of sport sciences, alzahra university

²Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Motor Behavior, Faculty of Sport Sciences, Alzahra University, Tehran, Iran

³کارشناس ارشد رفتار حرکتی، دانشگاه الزهرا، دانشکده علوم ورزشی، تهران

Cognitive activities, sports activities, emotional regulation, etc. require attention to relevant stimuli and the removal of irrelevant information. Attention is a cognitive process that selects some information from among a good deal of information. Countless internal and external stimuli can be taken into account, but human cognitive capacity is so limited that it cannot process all of them. Also, people with different attention control styles respond differently to their preferred perceptual learning styles. Learning styles are relatively stable cognitive, emotional, and physiological characteristics in people for learning. So far, researchers have named twenty-one learning styles, and one of them is the perceptual learning style. Perceptual learning style is the difference between learners in using one or more senses to understand, organize, and learn. The purpose of the present research is to examine the relationship between attention control and the preferred perceptual learning styles of female students. The current research is correlational. 73 female students from Alzahra University were selected by the purposive sampling method. In this research, Reid's questionnaire (1987) was used to determine the preferred styles of perceptual learning. This questionnaire examines six types of visual, auditory, tactile, kinesthetic, group, and individual perceptual styles. Kraft et al.'s attention style questionnaire (2019) was used to evaluate attention styles. This questionnaire has two components: concentration and distraction. Pearson's correlation coefficient was used to analyze the findings. Pearson's correlation coefficient results showed that there is a relationship between distraction attention style and auditory perception style (p = 0.021). There is a relationship between the focus attention style and the visual (p = 0.004), tactile (p = 0.017), and kinesthetic (p = 0.003) perceptual styles. Concentrated people use more visual, tactile, and kinesthetic perceptual styles. Knowing about different perceptual learning styles and their relationship with attention control helps teachers and educators better understand students' learning problems and use different approaches to improve the teaching process so that more students attend science-related classes and have motor and cognitive benefits.

focus of attention; perceptual learning; motor science; cognitive science