정보처리 역량의 선수선발에의 타당도 검증을 위한 기초연구 = A Preliminary Attempt to test the Validity of Information Processing Capacity as a Predictor of Sport Performance

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

An empirical evidence is reported to suggest that information processing capacity (or attentional capacity) is an important index which can be utilized in the prediction of sport success. On the assumption that a simultaneous (or continuous) processing of a barrage of diverse information is a necessary condition of critical importance for success especially in team sports, it was hypothesized that mire information can be efficiently processed as the number of practice trials increases.
Twenty right-handed female university students were tested under probe reaction condition with pursuit rotor task as the primary experimental task. Subjects were required to respond as quickly as possible to auditory signals inserted during the performance of the primary task. Using one-way ANOVA with repeated-measures, analyses of the number of contacts with the target on the pursuit rotor as well as of probe reaction times to the auditory stimuli revealed that: 1) the performance scores on the pursuit rotor increased proportionally as a function of the number of practice trials ans 2) the probe reaction time, in contrast, decreased significantly as practice continued.
These results were interpreted to strongly suggest that information processing capacity as evidenced by significant decrease in probe reaction times as a function of practice trials is inti mately related to the efficiency of task performance and, thus, may well serve as an important predictor of sport success, especially in sports where a simultaneous (or parallel) processing of a large amount of information is necessary.