Mental operations (motor action - latent action) among distinguished students and their ordinary peers (Research extracted from a master's thesis(

Abstract

The aim of the current research is to identify:

  1- The level of mental operations (motor action - latent action) of the distinguished students and their ordinary peers.

  2- Differences with statistical significance in mental processes (motor action - latent action) according to the gender variable among the distinguished students and their ordinary peers.

       In order to achieve the goals, it was necessary to build a scale for mental operations (motor action – latent action) to measure mental processes (kinetic action – latent action) for distinguished students and their ordinary peers, so the researcher built his scale after reviewing many previous studies and some theories related to the topic of research To identify the mental processes (motor act - latent action), and after verifying the psychometric properties of the research scale and its paragraphs, it was applied to the main research sample, which amounted to (340) male and female students, with a rate of (170) of the distinguished students, and in order to compare with ordinary students, ( 170) male and female students from the normal students were chosen in a random manner with a proportional distribution, as the selection of the sample in this way makes it more representative of the original research community, and it also gives freedom to the researcher to choose a number of each sex in a random manner commensurate with its size in the research community, and after analyzing the data Statistically using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS), the results showed the following:

1 -that the distinguished students and their ordinary peers have a level of mental operations (motor action - latent action)

2- There are no statistically significant differences in mental processes (motor action - latent action) according to the gender variable.