Pérez LM, Almirall HPJ, Amador RFJ

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ABSTRACT

Introduction: Cardiovascular problems represent a source of significant morbidity and mortality in our relationship, but it is difficult to predict which job requirements to fostering these diseases. A problem to be solved is to combine laboratory and field experiments, for which stimuli programs are needed, capable of replicating mental demands in the activity. Objectives: To assess whether the program presented by the Split software has different stages of difficulty being expressed by the reaction times. Material and method: We evaluated 15 subjects, 7 men and 8 women, ranging in age from 18 to 45, with an average of 32.60, all with a superior education to grade 9. They showed no disease or functional disorder. There were also conducted a psychological examination containing the following: clinical and psychological interview, the Folstein minitest of mental status, the Spielberger test of anxiety, and the Beck test of depression. The Split software paradigm was administered to all participants, which has three levels of tasks: training, evaluation of simple reaction time, and evaluation of discriminant reaction time. This latter task has three parts with different levels of difficulty, which were introduced by varying the order of difficulty to avoid the effect of depletion had an effect on the results of reaction time. The reaction time was measured in mental reaction time, motor reaction time and total reaction time. We used statistical package SPSS to analyze the results. Results and discussion: The reaction time increases as increasing the complexity of the task, no matter the order in which the exercise has been completed. We did not find any significant correlation between the individuality variables assessed. Conclusions: The program addresses the difficulty maintained and increasing, which is expressed in the reaction times. It is possible to use this program to encourage the interests of creating a master of psychic load.

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