In the training of judo sportsmen, it is topical for the coach to be aware of the psychological specialties that are important for the sportsmen in this field, and know how they are successfully realized in sporting wrestlers’ activities. Psychological characteristics of Lithuanian judo sportsmen have not been researched so far. In this paper there were researched professionally important qualities of judo wrestlers. The set aim of the research was to evaluate psychosocial specialties, cognitive processes (transfer of attention, spatial-visual thinking) and emotional resistance of judo wrestlers who belong to adult and junior groups in a complex manner, and compare the data of wrestlers, who belong or do not belong to the national team. The personality’s motivational field is analyzed in a complex with other domains, as any activities are conditioned by motives. Motives play an exceptionally important role for the development of actions, thinking and all other cognitive functions. The task of research: 1. To evaluate the sportsmen groups, who belong to adult and junior national judo teams of Lithuania and those ho not, seven psychosocial dimensions that influence the motivation in sports activities. 2. 2To investigate the sportsmen groups, who belong to adult and junior national judo teams of Lithuania and those ho not, cognitive field - operations of attention transfer and spatial-visual thinking. 3. To evaluate the sportsmen groups, who belong to adult and junior national... [to full text]

The aim of this work was to collect a body of evidence of the recategorization of mental verbs, and make an analysis of their meanings and grammar. The research showed that the most active in this respect were the verbs of perception. Depending on the grammatical and semantic co-text, the verbs of perception expressed a material, verbal, relational, existential or happening processes. The verbs of cognition were less active. Their secondary meanings often expressed the same process with a slight change of meaning. When recategorized, the verbs of cognition denoted material, existential, and verbal processes, as well as the processes of perception and affectivity. The verbs of affectivity were the least active. Most of them had only one or two meanings that denoted the same process.