The article reviews the state of knowledge in psychomotor research. Factorial studies have revealed a high degree of specificity in motor skills. Different abilities are involved in successive stages of acquiring a psychomotor skill. Psychomotor coordination and dexterity emerge as broadly based abilities involved in a wide range of industrial tasks. There is no evidence that blacks differ basically from whites in respect of these abilities, though cultural circumstances may affect the development of psychomotor skills. Proficiency in industrial tasks is predominantly the outcome of training and there is a strong case for the use of aptitude tests in developing countries to select those who will respond most readily to such training.
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