My survey of cognitive abilities was not intended to cover the domain of physical and psychomotor abilities, but many of the datasets included measures of psychomotor abilities, with the result that a number of interpretable factors in this domain appeared. The first section of this brief chapter presents, without extensive comment or discussion, a classified list of those factors in this group that appear to match factors that have been covered in previous literature surveys. In the second section, there is presentation and discussion of certain psychomotor factors that appear not to have been well recognized in previous surveys, or that seem particularly relevant in considering the measurement of cognitive abilities.

PHYSICAL AND PSYCHOMOTOR ABILITIES COVERED IN PREVIOUS SURVEYS

Fleishman (1964,1972; see also Fleishman & Quaintance, 1984) has summarized the results of research by himself and others on dimensions of physical and psychomotor abilities. A further summarization of these results is to be found in a chapter by Peterson and Bownas (1982), who list and describe, in their Figure 3.1, eighteen psychomotor and physical proficiency abilities identified by Theologus, Romashko, and Fleishman (1973); brief information on measures of these abilities is given in a section of their Figure 3.3. Using this information, I have attempted to classify, in Table 13.1, relevant factors yielded by my datasets.