Browsing by Author "Michay Valarezo, Wendy Lizbeth"

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Autoeficacia en pacientes drogodependientes internados en centros de rehabilitación de los cantones Paute y Déleg durante el periodo marzo-julio 2020
(Universidad de Cuenca, 2021-03-05) Michay Valarezo, Wendy Lizbeth; Pillaga Cuesta, Jhoana Jenmina; Lima Castro, Sandra Eugenia
Substance use is considered a problem worldwide due to the consequences and repercussions it generates for both consumers and society; in turn, said consumption behavior is mediated by different variables that contribute to its initiation, maintenance, cessation and abstinence, one of them being self-efficacy, conceived as the perception of personal confidence to overcome various stressful or risk events to throughout life. That is why the present research aims to determine the relationship between the levels of self-efficacy and the sociodemographic variables of drug-dependent patients admitted to rehabilitation centers in the cantons of Paute and Deleg. The research has a quantitative approach, of a non-experimental type with a cross section and a correlational scope. The population consisted of 50 male patients admitted to the mentioned rehabilitation centers, whose ages ranged freom 18 to 65 years. The instruments used were a sociodemographic record and the validated general Self-efficacy scale for use in the Ecuadorian context. For the descriptive analysis of the data measures of central tendency were used, while parametric and non-parametric statistical tests were used for the correlational study. The results indicate that certain sociodemographic characteristics such as age (being in a range of 36 to 65 years), having a relationship (commitment), high monthly income and a better academic level, influence the levels of self-efficacy, together with variables related to consumption, such as the number of relapses in the population. Keywords: Self-efficacy. Drug
Cognitive psychology in traffic safety
(2023) Tigre Atiencia, Wilson Xavier; Ordoñez Alberca, Danny Sebastian; Michay Valarezo, Wendy Lizbeth; Campos Castro, Camila Ines; Reyes Guaranda, Mauricio Esteban; Moreno Polo, Miguel Francisco; Avila Martinez, Maria Cristina; Montesdeoca Andrade, Mateo Sebastian
Improving traffic safety requires a better knowledge of cognitive Science, especially of the cognitive Ergonomics of road infrastructure and the vehicle–human interface. Driving is a complex task that involves different cognitive modules that have to coordinate simultaneously. Perception, Language, Memory and Mental Representation, Learning, Emotion and Motivation, Attention, Executive Functions, Thinking and Reasoning or Motor Programming should be better understood in order to adapt traffic infrastructure and interfaces to the human information processing. In this work, we review the importance of these cognitive modes in traffic safety. A holistic exam of all cognitive processes related to driving and road safety is recommended to be taken by all governments and in all countries. In this sense, systematic research in drivers’ evaluation and its link to automobile accidents should be implemented. Driver assistance systems can assist to drivers but they cannot substitute the human processing. © 2023 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
Quantifying the extraction of art meaning: no laterality effect
(2021) Vilchez Tornero, Jose Luis; Michay Valarezo, Wendy Lizbeth
The present study investigates the differential evaluation, motivational preference and ideomotor action (decision making) of Psychology students over pieces of graphical art. Material and methods: Abstract and figurative art pictures were presented in two different visual hemifields in a decision task to 31 Psychology students. There were 90 trials in which participants had to make this decision/ preference. Results: The findings indicate that there is no laterality effect in the two dependent variables used: count of preferences and response times (RTs). This statement is based on the fact that there is no interaction effect of more preferences or longer RTs depending on the side where the decision task was presented. On the other hand, there is a preference effect in the sense that the participants chose significantly more times the figurative art than the abstract one. In this sense, when preferring abstract art, participants spend significantly longer RTs than when they preferred figurative art. Conclusions: The results suggest that, for high level cognitive processes (such as paying attention and making decisions with art; in comparison to the plain perception and evaluation of it), there is no laterality effect. This conclusion is based on the lack of interaction effect depending on the side/hemifield where the decision task was presented. Moreover, Psychology students make a more analytical analysis of art since they prefer figurative art over abstract art. Finally, we can quantify the time that participants spent in extracting abstract art meaning, since they spent (as a mean) 231.78 ms longer when preferring abstract art than when they preferred figurative art.