Milovan Ljubojevic¹, Aldijana Muratovic¹, Marija Bubanja¹

¹University of Montenegro, Faculty for Sports and Physical Education, Niksic, Montenegro

Structure of Cognitive Abilities and Skills of Lifeguards

Sport Mont 2017, 15(1), 27-29

Abstract

The presence of lifeguard service on beaches greatly contributes to reducing the number of accidents in and around the water. The lifeguard can be a person with good motor, but also cognitive skills and abilities. In addition to good swimming skills, lifeguard must be able to quickly detect and recognize the accident, and also to be able to timely and correctly act in case of accident in water, but also at the beach. The goal of this study is to determine the structure of cognitive abilities and skills with the sample of lifeguards that work on Montenegrin beaches. Battery KOG-3 was applied on the sample of 40 lifeguards. The collected and achieved results lead to following conclusion: the subjects have good ability to determine relation between elements of a structure and lower characteristics of that structure; subjects have good ability to assess the efficiency of serial processor; and subjects have good ability to assess efficiency of perceptive processor.

Keywords

cognitive abilities, tests, lifeguards

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