Definition of "psychomotor" [psychomotor]

• Of or relating to movement or muscular activity associated with mental processes, especially affects, as in psychomotor slowing associated with depression. (adjective)

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• "Basically, by not enforcing the rules as written, they have made NBA basketball into a game that favors more heavily muscled, more explosive players at the expense of those who are relatively stronger in psychomotor ability than in raw athleticism (which, as Steve would probably like to expound on, also has the effect of deemphasizing the things that whites are comparatively good at and emphasizing the things that blacks are comparatively good out, thereby reducing white representation, which, one would think would be a bad business strategy given that it is mostly white guys that buy the tickets to the games and one would think that it would be less appealing to many fathers to take their sons to a game where there are no athletes that look like said son and that said son can identify with)."
• "Every two hours during the day, the researchers tested the subjects' ability to sustain attention with what's known as the psychomotor vigilance task, or P.V.T., considered a gold standard of sleepiness measures."
• "During the course of the experiment, they also participated in performance testing known as a psychomotor vigilance task (PVT), which was administered every two hours, beginning an hour and a half after they woke up."