Modeling causal relationships between task complexity, cognitive flexibility, (Risk – caution) cognitive style and post-error slowing of sample of female students from the Faculty of Education Tanta University

            The current study aimed primariy to build a proposed causal model for relationships bwteen the study variables (task complexity, cognitive flexibility, (Risk – caution) cognitive style and post-error slowing" and then validate the proposed model and verification of wether the (risk – caution) cognitive style represents a mediator variable between task complexity, cognitive flexibility and post-error slowing. Members of the core sample of the study were (110) female student from faculty of Education-Tanta University, for the year universities (2023-2024) average of their age was (19.2) years old with standard deviation (0.312) the researcher used the scale of the (risk – caution) cognitive style preparaton (Hazima Abdul Majid, 2008), cognitive flexibility scale for (Dennis & Vanderwal, 2010) Arabization (Omar Azamat, Mohammed Banikhalid, 2021) and a performance task to measure task complexity beyond post-error slowing (researcher preparation). The results showed correlation between post-error slowing and task complexity, also between post-error slowing and the (risk – caution) cognitive style, as well as between cognitive flexibility and the (risk – caution) cognitive style. Also the result showed that task complexity and the (risk – caugtion) cognitive style are predictors for post-error slowing in the stydy sample. The results did not show statisically significant differences in post-error slowing due to stmulus color (neutral-colored), and the results confirmed that the proposed model of causal relations among the study variables was identical to the study sample data.