Dejan Orlic¹, Milan Cvetkovic¹, Damjan Jaksic¹

¹Fakultet sporta i fizičkog vaspitanja, Novi Sad

THE DIFFERENCES IN MOTOR AND COGNITIVE ABILITIES IN GIRLS AGED 7

RAZLIKE U MOTORIČKIM I KOGNITIVNIM SPOSOBNOSTIMA KOD DEVOJČICA UZRASTA 7 GODINA

Sport Mont 2010, VII(21-22), 141-148

Abstract

The sample of 164 examinees (divided into three groups according to their IQ) – all of them girls from the major towns of Vojvodina – underwent an assessment of motor abilities where battery of 7 motor tests was used and an assessment of cognitive abilities in the case of which Raven's Colored Progressive Matrices were used. The results of the research show that there are statistically significant differences in motor and cognitive abilities between the analyzed groups in this sample of the examinees.

Keywords

intelligence, younger school age period, Raven's Progressive Matrices

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