With Reaction Time Analysis the slowing down of reactions can be assessed in a differentiated way according to the three stages of activity regulation (perception, cognitive processing and motor response organization. This shall be especially useful for the representation of the course of illnesses in an advanced age. But the RA can also be used as a tool for aptitude diagnostics.
Application
The Reaction Time Analysis (RA) has been developed for the field of clinical psychodiagnostics. However, it can also be applied to the selection process of personnel and to the examinations of therapeutic developments when observing a therapy (diagnostics of individual cases).
The aim is to differentiate the general statement about cognitive speed for tasks of the so-called speed-type regarding individual phases of action control. The phases concerned are perception, cognitive processing, and motor organization of responses. The items used in the test are choice reaction items as well as items of visual search.