Movement

Physiologically, change of position resulting from the action of muscles. We may distinguish broadly three kinds of movement: reflex, automatic, and voluntary, the last being in reality an extreme form of automatism. Movements are also cla ified as active, those performed by the subject himself, and pa ive, those communicated to the body by others. Psychologically, a movement is the natural and immediate result of feeling, or in the voluntary life the natural reaction to a cognition with its emotional tone is a conative act expre ed in movement or its inhibition. See REFLEX ACTION and AUTOMATIC ACTION.