The Development of Images Program Based on Gestalt Principles for Enhance the Sustainable Attention and Working Memory of the Early Adulthood
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The objectives of this research were to develop an images program based on Gestalt Principles for enhancing sustained attention and working memory in early adulthood, and to investigate the effect of the developed program by considering behavior and brainwaves. The sample consisted of 60 students from Huachiew Chalermprakiet University, aged 20-22 years old, who were majoring in tourism, randomly assigned to experimental and control groups. Research instruments were an images program based on Gestalt Principles, a sustained attention test, and a working memory test. Data were analyzed by using frequency distributions, percentages, standard deviations, t-tests, and multivariate analysis of variance.
The results were as follows: The developed program was found suitable for enhancing sustained attention and working memory in early adulthood. The average accuracy and reaction time of the test in the experimental group after training was significantly higher than before training, at the .01 level of significance. In conclusion, the images program based on Gestalt Principles was able to increase sustained attention and working memory in early adulthood.
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