Abstract
<jats:p>Background and purpose In order for physical education classes to be liked by students and to benefit them, a differentiated approach is needed, based on the characteristics of their neurodynamic functions. Purpose: to determine the characteristics of students of different faculties of pedagogical universities in terms of indicators of the nervous system based on reaction speed indicators. Material and methods We selected the results of 554 out of 812 students of all faculties of the pedagogical university, since these students passed all the tests. The study was attended by students of the following faculties: natural sciences, history, psychology, history, foreign languages, Ukrainian-speaking, preschool and primary education, arts and physical education and sports. Students of classical humanitarian specialties - philology and history - were considered representatives of the humanitarian profile. Results It was determined that students of historical and philology specialties occupy an intermediate position between students - future primary school teachers and art teachers. Future historians and philologists have significantly lower latent reaction time indicators (respectively, higher reaction speed) compared to future teachers of fine arts (p<0.05). Future teachers of history and philology significantly differ from future teachers of primary grades and educators in preschool institutions in the direction of a less mobile nervous system, and from future teachers of fine arts, on the contrary, in the direction of a more mobile nervous system. In terms of the number of errors in the test for determining latent reaction time, future teachers of history and philology showed significantly better results compared to future teachers of primary grades and preschool education and significantly worse results compared to future teachers of fine arts (p<0.05). Conclusions As our study has shown, future historians and philologists have a special type of nervous system, characterized by a combination of greater inertia of excitation processes compared to future primary school teachers and preschool teachers and less stability of the nervous system compared to future teachers of fine arts. This necessitates the use of long-term, but less intense cyclic loads that correspond to their natural endurance.</jats:p>