Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to such mental action as induces muscular contraction.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Of or pertaining to movement produced by action of the mind or will.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective of or relating to or characterizing mental events that have motor consequences or vice versa

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Examples

  • While most teachers rely only on the Lecture, which is a mere verbal symbol medium that puts knowledge at the cognitive, he takes his teaching a step further to a psycho-motor process in order to drive his point home in practical terms.

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  • While most teachers rely only on the Lecture, which is a mere verbal symbol medium that puts knowledge at the cognitive, he takes his teaching a step further to a psycho-motor process in order to drive his point home in practical terms.

    A Painter meets an Actor on Great Highlife Party Stage Winner of the Prince Claus Award 2006 2008

  • In various tests of cognitive and psycho-motor skills, for example, lack of iron has been found to be associated with significant levels of disadvantage—affecting IQ scores by as much as 5 to 7 IQ points.

    32 months late, the New York Times catches up to VDARE.com 2006

  • In various tests of cognitive and psycho-motor skills, for example, lack of iron has been found to be associated with significant levels of disadvantage—affecting IQ scores by as much as 5 to 7 IQ points.

    32 months late, the New York Times catches up to VDARE.com 2006

  • In various tests of cognitive and psycho-motor skills, for example, lack of iron has been found to be associated with significant levels of disadvantage—affecting IQ scores by as much as 5 to 7 IQ points.

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  • Dostoevsky also suffered from these states, and his reports of them are sufficiently detailed to permit a more certain medical diagnosis of his affliction -- some kind of psycho-motor epilepsy.

    LSD and the Third Eye 1966

  • At his desk the child traces with his fore finger, going over the smooth path again and again -- thus developing psycho-motor co-ordination.

    How to Teach Phonics Lida M. Williams

  • What is happening in the brain -- especially in the psycho-motor centres -- when we move an arm by means of an act of will?

    The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal Hereward Carrington 1919

  • On this level, later, language continues the process of perfecting in proportion as the hearing perceives better the component sounds of the words and the psycho-motor channels become more permeable to articulation.

    The Montessori Method Anne E. Montessori George 1912

  • This indeed is what is done by my method, which prepares the movements directly; so that the psycho-motor impulse of the heard speech finds the motor channels already established, and is manifested in the act of writing, like an explosion.

    The Montessori Method Anne E. Montessori George 1912

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