This chapter focuses on training complex psychomotor performance skills, advocating a part‐
task approach that involves de‐coupling the conjoined cognitive and motor domains for
targeted training. Psychomotor performance skills typically include two types of component
skills: production of motor actions and recognition of environmental conditions that trigger
actions. The chapter summarizes eight principles for training psychomotor performance
skills. It lists the guidelines for designing psychomotor training in a distinctly non‐sports …

This chapter focuses on training complex psychomotor performance skills, advocating a part-
task approach that involves de-coupling the conjoined cognitive and motor domains for
targeted training. Psychomotor performance skills typically include two types of component
skills: production of motor actions and recognition of environmental conditions that trigger
actions. Production and recognition skills are often intertwined in a seamless cycle of
adaptive action that appears effortless when observed in an expert performer—whether that …