Abstract
In being asked to make a contribution to a conference on ‘Learning Disabilities’ from within the topic area ‘Psychomotor aspects,’ we were confronted with three sources of constraint:
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Whiting’s (1980) recent statements about the limited applicability of knowledge gained from the experimental skill laboratory to what we will call the more meaningful ‘messy world of real affairs.’
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The unclear relationship that may exist between the psychomotor literature and the problems of learning.
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The extremely short time that was available between the receipt of the invitation to make a contribution to the conference and the necessity to prepare a paper having at least some relevance to the conference theme. This you may appreciate, to people not actually involved in the field of learning disabilities presented major difficulties.
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Whiting, H.T.A., den Brinker, B. (1982). Image of the Act. In: Das, J.P., Mulcahy, R.F., Wall, A.E. (eds) Theory and Research in Learning Disabilities. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2157-4_11
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