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Knowledge Applica on Problem Solving
Organization
Adaptation
Complete Overt
Response
Mechanism
Guided
Response
Set
Perception
Psychomotor Skill
Problem
Solving
Apply
Know
MacDonald, Nowakowski, Schonwetter, 2012
Psychomotor Levels (adapted from Simpson, 1972)
Level Process
Type of Performance
Organization
Complete Overt
Response
Mechanism
Guided
Response
Set
Perception
abstract
Creates new patterns for specific situations
Adaptation Adapts skill set to meet a problem situation
concrete
Performs acts with increasing efficiency, confidence
and proficiency
Imitates and practices skills, often in discrete steps
Student must be able to: Teacher behavior
• Holds tongue comfortably
for patient during examine
• With assistance, able to
grasp tongue for examine
• Discuss means of looking
at mesial surface of fork in
tongue
• Assembles tools for oral
examination
• States how to hold tongue
to look at all surfaces
Performs Automatically
Mentally, emotionally, physically read to act
Senses cues that guide motor activity
• I see that you had initially
difficulty holding the
tongue, share your
solutions…what did you
do?
• A tongue is difficult to hold
at the best of times,, can
you show me how to hold a
tongue in general?
• Of all the instruments on
the tray which one would
you use to examine an
infected tongue?
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