Motor Aptitudes and Cognitive Processes

Motor aptitudes play an important role in psycho – motor activeness of human being, which means, that aptitudes determine the range of psycho – motor development and the extent of effects of motor learning and intellectual activeness. The quintessence of motor aptitudes is described as the individual characteristic, determining capacity of acquisition new motor skills, i.e. velocity, durability, and accuracy of motor learning. Concept Szopy i Latinka (1995, 1998) there are only two complexes, differentiating one from another depending on the function of the control centers: complex of learning i.e. motor aptitudes and control and adaptation complex. Factors, under which motor aptitudes display, are: the level of learner’ interest for the movement, perception efficiency, attention concentration, memory, imagination, and the ability for interiorization movements. The aim of our research was to estimate the relations between motor aptitudes with some cognitional process, which are significant for motor learning. Research was done in years 2000 – 2002 among 267 female students of the students of University School of Physical Education in Wroclaw. We observed significant relations between short-time memory, intelligence, spatial imaginary and motor aptitudes. These relations have proportional character, i.e. higher level of cognitional processes – higher level of motor aptitudes.