Prospective Memory and its Relationship To Attentional control Among Basrah University students

Abstract

   The study aimed to identify the level of Prospective memory and the level of attentional control among the students of BasrahUniversity, as well as to identify the significance of the difference in the level of Prospective memory and attentional control according to the gender variable (male - female) and to detect whether there is a statistically significant correlation between the Prospective memory and the level of attentional control Among the students of Basra University, and in order to achieve the objectives of the study, the descriptive approach was used in both its survey and correlative aspects. The researcher prepared the study tools and the validity and reliability of the tools were extracted. The study tools were applied in their final form to the study sample of the students of the University of Basrah, which numbered (400), and one of the most prominent results of the study was: that the students of the University of Basrah enjoy anticipatory memory. Gender (male - female) in the level of proactive memory and attentional control according to the gender variable (male - female), as well as the study showed the existence of a correlation (direct) medium value between the proactive memory and the level of attentional control and according to the results of the study recommendations and suggestions were formulated