Evaluation of the Dominant Sensorial Perception through Sports Performance Training

Abstract

Performance sport is a specific activity which limits the physical and mental possibilities of the individual, a social experiment in which an impressive number of sciences and disciplines with scientific characteristics test their forces. The intervention of the psychological preparing and assistance on athletes has as starting point the need to increase the mental capacities and to adapt them to the limit requirements of the specific activities, and as an ending point to achieve the mental “skills” which will satisfy those needs under reliable conditions of the psychobehavioral sistem.
The aim of the research constitutes, on the one hand, the study, analysis and acknowledgement of particular psychological personalities of the athletes and their manner of evolution in terms of their dominant sensorial perception; on the other hand, to improve the process of sports training in light to increase the general level of sports performances, in the game of handball.
The subjects taking part in the research are 14 female handball players with ages ranging from 14 to 16 years old, members of the Handball Sports Club Association Veraflor Braşov.
The methods of testing include: the sensorial perception test, the questionnaire contains 15 items, each having 4 possible answers. (AVKD)
Auto-observation – Each subject has watched selected video sequences from their training, after which they were invited to describe aloud the accuracy of their activities and on how they communicate with their teammates.
Conversation – it targeted the same formative effect through feedback, observing the way in which the female handball players are selecting perceptive data, how they systematize it, how they verbalize it and how they introduce them into their behavior.
This research highlights the importance of mental processes in performance sports activities. The result of the research contribute to the confirmation of the hypothesis that the application of a specific methodology in the process of preparation helps the development of the secondary channels of perception in training and implicitly at the increasing of general level of the individual and group sports performances.