{"id":9077,"date":"2019-05-22T16:14:40","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/skill_-general\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:14:40","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:14:40","slug":"skill_-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/skill_-general\/","title":{"rendered":"Skill (general)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The capacity for carrying out complex, well-organized, patterns of behavior smoothly and adaptively so as to achieve some end or goal, such as sophisticated forms of tool use. &nbsp;In contrast to ability, it requires optimal values to be assigned to the coordinative structure constituting an action.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"ability\">Ability<\/a>, <a href=\"action\">Action<\/a>, <a href=\"competence_-psychology-\">Competence (psychology)<\/a>, <a href=\"coordinative_structure\">Coordinative structure<\/a>, <a href=\"fundamental_movement_patterns\">Fundamental movement patterns<\/a>, <a href=\"motor_learning\">Motor learning<\/a>, <a href=\"motor_skill\">Motor skill<\/a>, <a href=\"praxis\">Praxis<\/a>, <a href=\"ontogenetic_skills\">Ontogenetic skills<\/a>, <a href=\"phylogenetic_skills\">Phylogenetic skills<\/a>, <a href=\"praxis\">Praxis<\/a>, <a href=\"skill_-specific-\">Skill (specific)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The capacity for carrying out complex, well-organized, patterns of behavior smoothly and adaptively so as to achieve some end or goal, such as sophisticated forms of tool use. &nbsp;In contrast to ability, it requires optimal values to be assigned to the coordinative structure constituting an action.&nbsp; See Ability, Action, Competence (psychology), Coordinative structure, Fundamental movement &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/skill_-general\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Skill (general)&#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-9077","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\/9077","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=9077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}