USE OF COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY IN EVALUATING THE CONCENTRATION AND MOBILITY OF ATTENTION
USE OF COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY IN EVALUATING THE CONCENTRATION AND MOBILITY OF ATTENTION

Summary/Abstract: Attention is the psychical phenomenon (mental function) which designates the selective orientation of the activity and the focalization of the mental energy on an object, in order to know it better and to act more efficiently. Attention is the manifestation of conscience and cannot be related to a certain mental process. It does not have inherent reflectory content, being present in all psychical functions – perception, representation, thinking (we pay attention when we perceive, when we memorize, when we think etc). This study was carried out on a number of 90 students in NUPES, divided into three groups: performance athletes who practice individual sports (tennis, karate and gymnastics), performance athletes who practice team sports (football, handball and basketball) and students who don’t practice any kind of sports. We assessed attention concentration and mobility through two computerized tests: CMA-R and TAC, of the battery of tests PSISELTEVA. CMA-R test is conceived under the shape of a dynamic model made of task-sequences with progressive degrees of difficulty. TAC test consists in giving a pre-established answer for each signal-stimulus identified among insignificant stimuli. Using ANOVA (one-way),we highlighted significant differences statistically (p < 0, 05) between the three samples of athletes. Practising sports systematically can be an effective way of developing certain skills and abilities such as: attention concentration and mobility, observation spirit, fast visual analysis capacity, visual discrimination capacity, prompt reactions at the visual signs that have to be differentiated. These are directly related to the increase of personal efficiency and performance both in sports as well as in general in any other socio-professional activity.

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