{"title":"Stap2Go Test: Validity and Sensitivity/Specificity for Attention and Executive Function Assessment","authors":"Teresa Rossignoli-Palomeque, Cristina Romero-Casas","doi":"10.1002/acp.70199","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.70199","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Attention and executive function difficulties are common in many neurodevelopmental conditions and significantly impact psychological well-being. However, access to cognitive assessment remains limited due to high costs and resource constraints. To address this gap, the Stap2Go test was developed as a digital, cost-effective, and accessible screening tool for assessing attention and executive functions. This study examined the convergent validity of Stap2Go by comparing it with the CPT3. It also evaluated the sensitivity and specificity of Stap2Go in detecting altered scores by comparing children with ADHD (both medicated and unmedicated) to children without ADHD. Additionally, it explored whether medication may mask attentional difficulties, emphasizing the importance of conducting assessments off-medication. The sample included 52 children with ADHD and 49 typically developing children. Moderate correlations were found between Stap2Go and CPT3. Stap2Go demonstrated good sensitivity in detecting altered scores in children with ADHD and high specificity in the control group.</p>","PeriodicalId":48281,"journal":{"name":"Applied Cognitive Psychology","volume":"40 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/acp.70199","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147683599","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Stap2Go Test: Validity and Sensitivity/Specificity for Attention and Executive Function Assessment","authors":"Teresa Rossignoli-Palomeque, Cristina Romero-Casas","doi":"10.1002/acp.70199","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.70199","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Attention and executive function difficulties are common in many neurodevelopmental conditions and significantly impact psychological well-being. However, access to cognitive assessment remains limited due to high costs and resource constraints. To address this gap, the Stap2Go test was developed as a digital, cost-effective, and accessible screening tool for assessing attention and executive functions. This study examined the convergent validity of Stap2Go by comparing it with the CPT3. It also evaluated the sensitivity and specificity of Stap2Go in detecting altered scores by comparing children with ADHD (both medicated and unmedicated) to children without ADHD. Additionally, it explored whether medication may mask attentional difficulties, emphasizing the importance of conducting assessments off-medication. The sample included 52 children with ADHD and 49 typically developing children. Moderate correlations were found between Stap2Go and CPT3. Stap2Go demonstrated good sensitivity in detecting altered scores in children with ADHD and high specificity in the control group.</p>","PeriodicalId":48281,"journal":{"name":"Applied Cognitive Psychology","volume":"40 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/acp.70199","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147683600","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jeffrey A. Gibbons, Brenna McManus, Ella White, Zach Alam, John Tucker, Emily Pappalardo
{"title":"The Relation of Sexual Activity and Attachment to the Fading Affect Bias Across Sexual and Non-Sexual Events","authors":"Jeffrey A. Gibbons, Brenna McManus, Ella White, Zach Alam, John Tucker, Emily Pappalardo","doi":"10.1002/acp.70193","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.70193","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The Fading Affect Bias (FAB) is the faster fading of unpleasant than pleasant emotions tied to autobiographical event memories. This phenomenon is negatively related to unhealthy/maladaptive variables (e.g., psychological distress) and positively related to healthy/adaptive variables (e.g., partner-esteem). These results suggest that the FAB is a healthy coping mechanism that helps individuals adapt to emotionally harmful experiences. Although past research compared romantic sexual experiences to romantic non-sexual experiences and juxtaposed romantic relationship events and non-romantic relationship events, it did not compare sexual events to non-sexual and non-romantic relationship events, which was done in the current study. We found a larger FAB for non-sexual, non-romantic events than sexual events, and the expected relations between healthy/adaptive and unhealthy/maladaptive non-sexual and sexual variables and the FAB. We also found complex three-way interactions in which sexual and relationship variables predicted the FAB that were mediated by rehearsal ratings. Implications were discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":48281,"journal":{"name":"Applied Cognitive Psychology","volume":"40 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/acp.70193","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147683406","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}