A STUDY OF IMAGERY AND VERBAL STRATEGIES BASED ON LATERALIZED HEMISPHERIC PROCESSING IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF A PSYCHOMOTOR SKILL IN A BACCALAUREATE NURSING CURRICULUM.
Contributors: University of Pittsburgh.
Published: 1987
Number of pages: 153
Subjects: Education, Curriculum and Instruction.; Health Sciences, Nursing.
Description: A posttest-only control group design was used in this study to investigate the effect of a guided imagery strategy and a verbal strategy on the acquisition of the psychomotor skill of sterile gloving. The interaction of visuospatial and verbal sequential cognitive abilities with the two strategies, guided imagery and verbal, was also investigated. Fifty-four paid female volunteer sophomore student nurses participated in this study. The subjects were first divided into two groups based on cognitive abilities as determined by the Cognitive Laterality Quotient of the Cognitive Laterality Battery developed by Gordon. The subjects were then randomly assigned to a strategy, guided imagery or verbal. After completing the strategy and watching a videotaped demonstration of the skill, each student was videotaped performing the sterile gloving procedure. Each videotaped performance was independently scored by three raters in order to identify errors made as the subject performed the skill. There was no statistically significant difference in the ability to perform the psychomotor skill of sterile gloving between the subject in the guided imagery and verbal strategies. There was no statistically significant interaction between strategy and visuospatial and verbal sequential abilities. The visuospatial subjects performed the psychomotor skill of sterile gloving significantly better than the verbal sequential subjects. In addition, subjects in the acquisition stage of psychomotor skill learning were unable to identify contamination of the gloves when this occurred. The results suggest that guided imagery strategy is as effective as the verbal strategy in teaching this psychomotor skill and that both visuospatial and verbal sequential subjects are able to benefit from this strategy.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 49-04, Section: A, page: 0719.

Thesis (PH.D.)--UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH, 1987.

School code: 0178.