Document Type

Book Chapter

Publication Date

4-25-2025

Keywords

adulthood, age, applied contexts, brain injury, cognitive function, coordinated behaviors, depression, everyday activities, mental health problems, motor activities, physical skills, pouring a glass of milk/applying makeup, psychomotor, psychomotor ability, psychomotor behavior, psychomotor speed, recovery, schizophrenia, sports performance, symptoms

Disciplines

Biological Psychology | Developmental Psychology

Abstract

Psychomotor ability is defined in terms of the relationship between cognitive functions and motor activities. It plays an important role in acquiring and carrying out a broad range of physical skills and coordinated behaviors, such as playing a sport, or in everyday activities like pouring a glass of milk or applying makeup. Psychomotor speed therefore is the rate at which a certain psychomotor behavior can be carried out. Because of the relevance of psychomotor speed to many areas of personal functioning, it has been extensively studied in a wide variety of applied contexts including sports performance, personnel selection within the military, symptoms of mental health problems such as depression and schizophrenia, and recovery following brain injury.

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