{"id":8804,"date":"2019-05-22T16:11:41","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/praxis\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:11:41","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:11:41","slug":"praxis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/praxis\/","title":{"rendered":"Praxis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Derived from the Latin word for \u2018acting, doing\u2019, it is taken to mean ideation, planning, sequencing and executing a skilled movement.&nbsp;&nbsp;Thus, it asserts that cognition directs the performance of functional, every-day, movements such as tool use (e.g., writing with a pencil) with adjustments arising from feedback.&nbsp;&nbsp;It is a term that is more commonly used occupational therapy and physiotherapy than in basic research on motor control.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"action\">Action<\/a>, <a href=\"developmental_dyspraxia\">Developmental dyspraxia<\/a>, <a href=\"executive_function_-ef-\">Executive function (EF)<\/a>, <a href=\"feedback\">Feedback<\/a>, <a href=\"motor_control\">Motor control<\/a>, <a href=\"skill_-general-\">Skill (general)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Derived from the Latin word for \u2018acting, doing\u2019, it is taken to mean ideation, planning, sequencing and executing a skilled movement.&nbsp;&nbsp;Thus, it asserts that cognition directs the performance of functional, every-day, movements such as tool use (e.g., writing with a pencil) with adjustments arising from feedback.&nbsp;&nbsp;It is a term that is more commonly used occupational &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/praxis\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Praxis&#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-8804","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\/8804","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=8804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}