{"id":8473,"date":"2019-05-22T16:08:05","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/motor_equivalence\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:08:05","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:08:05","slug":"motor_equivalence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/motor_equivalence\/","title":{"rendered":"Motor equivalence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Based on the biological concept of equifinality (i.e., employing different means to achieve the same end state), it can be defined as performing an action or a task in a variety of different ways. &nbsp;To put it another way, it involves using movements in a flexible manner so as to achieve a particular outcome such that there is more than one solution to solve a particular problem. &nbsp;Accordingly, a variety of different muscle contractions and joint rotations can produce the same outcome, something that is not a characteristic of a reflex but rather an action. &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"action\">Action<\/a>, <a href=\"biomechanical_degrees_of_freedom\">Biomechanical degrees of freedom<\/a>, <a href=\"equifinality\">Equifinality<\/a>, Reflex <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Based on the biological concept of equifinality (i.e., employing different means to achieve the same end state), it can be defined as performing an action or a task in a variety of different ways. &nbsp;To put it another way, it involves using movements in a flexible manner so as to achieve a particular outcome such &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/motor_equivalence\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Motor equivalence&#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-8473","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\/8473","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=8473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}