pseudoskill
nounEtymology From pseudo- + skill.
1
A fake or ingenuine skill; something approximating a skill.
- Curriculum and materials are too often stupid as well as dull, aimed to produce attitudes and allegedly practical pseudoskills rather than understanding and capability.1964, Daniel Schreiber, The School Dropout, page 210:
- The result of Hofsten (1983) rules out the possibility that the catching observed in infants is a kind of pseudoskill governed by some simplified strategy.2016, Herbert Heuer, Andries Sanders, Perspectives on Perception and Action, page 40: