THE DIFFERENCES IN MOTOR AND COGNITIVE ABILITIES IN GIRLS AGED 7

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