10. Daves Psychomotor Domain
Stage
Category or
Stage
Behavior Description
Examples of activities, demonstrations,
and evidence of learning
Action Verbs
1 Imitation Copy action of another
Watch teacher or trainer and repeat action, process,
or activity
Copy, follow, replicate, repeat,
adhere, observe, identify,
mimic, try, reenact, and
imitate
2 Manipulation
Reproduce activity from
instructions
Carry out task from written or verbal instructions
Re-create, build, perform,
execute, and implement
3 Precision
Execute skill reliably,
independent of help
Perform a task or activity with expertise and to high
quality without assistance or instruction; able to
demonstrate an activity to other learners
Demonstrate, complete, show,
perfect, calibrate, control, and
practice
4 Articulation
Adapt and integrate expertise
to satisfy a non-standard
objective
Relate and combine associated activities to develop
methods to meet varying, novel requirements
Construct, solve, combine,
coordinate, integrate, adapt,
develop, formulate, modify,
master, improve, and teach
5 Naturalization
Automated, unconscious
mastery of activity and related
skills at strategic level
Define aim, approach, and strategy for use of
activities to meet strategic need
Design, specify, manage,
invent, and project-manage
http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Instructional_design/Psychomotor_behaviors/Introduction
11. Imitation
Copy, follow, replicate,
repeat, adhere, observe,
identify, mimic, try, reenact,
and imitate
Manipulation
Re-create, build,
perform, execute, and
implement
Precision
Demonstrate, complete,
show, perfect, calibrate,
control, and practice