Abstract: The present study aims to find out the karate and non - karate students on cognitive functioning. In the present study a sample of 60 college students were selected by convenient sampling method. The sample was chosen from the various colleges, in Chennai. The age group of the sample ranged from 18 to 24 years. 30 sample were professional Karate students and 30 sample were non karate students. Data were collected by advanced progressive matrices (APM) for intelligence, Flinder’s decision making questionnaire for Decision making, PGI memory scale for memory, The Wallach and Kogan creativity instrument of creativity. To find out the difference between in intelligence, decision making, memory and creativity among karate and non-karate was analyzed by mean, standard deviations and “t” test were worked out to identify the difference. At the conclusion of the analysis, it was found that there is no significant difference between karate and non-karate students on cognitive.
Keywords: Advanced progressive matrices (APM), karate and non-karate students.
Title: A Comparative Study of Karate and Non-Karate Students on Cognitive Functioning
Author: T.Gopinath
International Journal of Life Sciences Research
ISSN 2348-313X (Print), ISSN 2348-3148 (online)
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