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• Intelligence: The ability to learn and adapt to new situations.
• General Intelligence: Underlies all mental abilities and is therefore measured by every task on an intelligence test.
• Factor Analysis: a statistical procedure that identifies clusters of related items on a test. Used to identify different dimensions of performance that underlie a person's total score.
• Savant Syndrome: a person has limited mental ability but has an exceptional specific skill like drawing.
• Sternberg's Three Intelligences: Analytical intelligence, Creative intelligence and practical intelligence
• Creative Intelligence: ability to adapt to new situations and novel ideas
• Analytical Intelligence: present well defined problems with a single right answer. Like an SAT
• Practical Intelligence: required for everyday tasks that may be poorly defined and have multiple solutions
• Grit: passion and perseverance in the pursuit of longterm goals
• Emotional Intelligence: the ability to perceive, understand, manage and use emotions.
• Thurstone's primary mental abilities: our intelligence may be broken down into many factors. g score is not as informative as scores for seven primary mental abilities. however, does have a tendency to cluster.
• Gardner's Multiple Intelligences: abilities classified into 8-9 independent intelligences which include a broad range of skills beyond traditional school smarts. However all abilities cannot be grouped into intelligence.