{"id":8468,"date":"2019-05-22T16:08:02","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/motor_ability\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:08:02","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:08:02","slug":"motor_ability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/motor_ability\/","title":{"rendered":"Motor ability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The qualities, power, competence, faculties, proficiencies, dexterities, talents, etc., that enable one to perform a particular motor feat at a specified time. &nbsp;It is a theoretical construct regarding factors that underlie proficiency in motor tasks (e.g., strength, speed, power, agility, balance, coordination, flexibility, accuracy, endurance). &nbsp;The factors are ordinarily measured with standardized tests (e.g., vertical power jump).&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"action\">Action<\/a>, <a href=\"fine_motor_abilities\">Fine motor abilities<\/a>, <a href=\"gross_motor_abilities\">Gross motor abilities<\/a>, <a href=\"motor_development\">Motor development<\/a>, <a href=\"motor_milestone\">Motor milestone<\/a>, <a href=\"motor_skill\">Motor skill<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The qualities, power, competence, faculties, proficiencies, dexterities, talents, etc., that enable one to perform a particular motor feat at a specified time. &nbsp;It is a theoretical construct regarding factors that underlie proficiency in motor tasks (e.g., strength, speed, power, agility, balance, coordination, flexibility, accuracy, endurance). &nbsp;The factors are ordinarily measured with standardized tests (e.g., vertical &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/motor_ability\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Motor ability&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}