Ability - correct answer ✔✔the relatively stable capabilities people have to perform; a particular range of
different but related activities. Capacity for learning
-a function of genes and environment. amount attributable to each depends on the nature of the ability
3 Categories of Ability - correct answer ✔✔1. Cognitive Ability
2. Emotional Ability
3. Physical Ability
Skills can be taught, ability is stable - correct answer ✔✔Skills vs Ability
Cognitive Ability - correct answer ✔✔Genes and the environment play roughly equal roles in the
determination of _____ _____. Nurture has a slightly smaller effect. The differences in this become less
apparent as people get older.
5 Facets of Cognitive Ability - correct answer ✔✔1. Verbal Ability - understanding and expressing oral
and written communication.
2. Quantitative Ability
3. Reasoning Ability
4. Spatial Ability
5. Perceptual Ability
Cognitive Ability Definition - correct answer ✔✔capabilities related to the acquisition and application of
knowledge in problem solving
The specific forms of intelligence are called Spearman's S ??
2 Types of Quantitative Ability: - correct answer ✔✔Number Facility - simple math operating
, Mathematical Reasoning - ability to choose and apply formulas
Reasoning ability Definition - correct answer ✔✔Diverse set of abilities associated with sensing and
solving problems using insight, rules, and logic
4 Types of Reasoning Ability - correct answer ✔✔1. Problem sensitivity - ability to sense current or
future problem
2. Deductive Reasoning - use of general rules to solve problems (judges)
4. Originality - ability to develop clever and novel ways to solve problems
Spatial Ability - correct answer ✔✔capabilities associated with visual and mental representation and
manipulation of objects in space
1. Spatial orientation (where objects are in relation to other objects)
2. Visualization (how separate objects will look if put together)
Perceptual Ability - correct answer ✔✔the ability to perceive, understand, and recall patterns of
information
Two components of perceptual ability - correct answer ✔✔1. Speed and flexibility of closure: being able
to pick out a pattern of information quickly in the presence of distracting information
2. Perceptual speed - examine and compare numbers, letters, and objects quickly
positively; - correct answer ✔✔The specific forms of intelligence are ___ correlated. They are accounted
for by (or g factor)
General cognitive ability (g-factor) - correct answer ✔✔underlies or causes all of the more specific
cognitive abilities we've discussed so far
4 Components of Emotional Intelligence - correct answer ✔✔1. Self-awareness - appraisal and
expression of emotions in ones-self
2. Other awareness - appraisal and recognition of emotion in others
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