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Chapter 1 - Variations in Psychological Attributes Flashcards

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Individual differences

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It refers to distinctiveness and variations among people’s characteristics and behavior patterns

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Situationism

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Situations and circumstances in which one is placed influence one’s behavior

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The first step in understanding psychological attribute

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Assessment

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Assessments can be of two types

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Formal and informal

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Psychological tests use systematic testing procedures to

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evaluate abilities, behaviors, and personal qualities of individuals

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The global capacity to understand the world, think rationally, and use available resources effectively when faced with challenges

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Intelligence

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Students with ________ are not likely to do well in school-related examinations

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Low intelligence

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Non linear and unidimensional

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Psychological attributes

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For a complete assessment of a person, we need to assess various domains such as

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cognitive, emotional, social, etc.

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Aptitude

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Individuals underlying potential for acquiring skills

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Interest

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Individual’s preference for engaging in one or more specific activities relative to others

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Personality

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Relatively enduring characteristics of a person that make her or him distinct from others

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Values

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Enduring beliefs about an ideal mode of behavior

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Assessment methods

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Psychological test, interview, case study, observation and self-report

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The tests used for diagnosis, guidance, personnel selection, placement, and training is

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Psychological test

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Psychological test

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An objective and standardized measure of an individual’s mental or behavioral characteristics

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Interview

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Seeking information from a person on a one-on-one basis

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Case studies are based on data generated from

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Interview, observation, questionnaire, psychological tests, etc.

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An in-depth study of an individual in terms of her/his psychological attributes

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Case study

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Employing systematic, organized, and objective procedures to record behavioral phenomena occurring naturally in real-time

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Observation

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Self-report

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The person provides factual information about herself/himself or opinions, beliefs, etc.

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Intelligence - oxford definition

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The power of perceiving, learning, understanding, and knowing

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Intelligence - Alfred Binet

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Ability to judge well, understand well, and reason well

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Intelligence - Weschler

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the global and aggregate capacity of an individual to think rationally, act purposefully, and deal effectively with her/his environment

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Individuals not only adapt to the environment but actively modifies and shapes it - proposed by

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Gardner and Sternberg

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The broad categories of intelligence theories

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Psychometric and information processing

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Intelligence is an aggregate of abilities

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Psychometric approach

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Information processing approach

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The processes people use in intellectual reasoning

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Alfred Binet’s theory

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One factor theory

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Factors in the two-factor theory

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s factor and g factor

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Charles Spearman

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two-factor theory

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Louis Thurstone

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Theory of primary mental abilities

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Seven primary abilities according to Thurstone

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Verbal comprehension, Numerical abilities, spatial relations, perceptual speed, word fluency, memory, and inductive reasoning

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Verbal comprehension in PMA

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Grasping of meaning and words, concepts and ideas

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Numerical abilities in PMA

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Speed and accuracy in numerical and computational skills

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Spatial relations in PMA

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Visualizing and forming patterns

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Perceptual speed in PMA

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Speed in perceiving details

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Word fluency in PMA

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using words flexibly and fluently

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Memory in PMA

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Accuracy in recalling information

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Arthur Jensen

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The hierarchical model of intelligence

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Level I

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Associative learning

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Associative learning

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output is more or less similar to the input

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Level II

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Cognitive competence

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Cognitive competence

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higher-order skills - transform the input to produce an output

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J.P. Guildford

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Structure of intellect model

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Three dimensions of the structure of intellect model

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operations, contents, and products

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Operations

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cognition, recording, memory retention, divergent and convergent production, evaluation

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Contents

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visual, auditory, symbolic, semantic, and behavior

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Products

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Units, classes, relations, systems, transformations, and implications

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Guildford’s classification categories

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656 = 180 cells

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Howard Gardner

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Theory of Multiple Intelligence

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Word smart

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sensitive to different shades of word meanings, are articulate, and can create linguistic images in their mind

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Scientists and Nobel prize winners

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Logical-mathematical intelligence

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Forming, using, and transforming mental images

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Spatial intelligence

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Athletes, dancers, actors

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Bodily-kinaesthetic

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Naturalistic Intelligence

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Complete awareness of relationship with the natural world

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Robert Sternberg

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Triarchic theory of intelligence

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The elements of the Triarchic theory of intelligence

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Componential, experiential, and contextual

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Componential intelligence

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Analytical intelligence - analysis of information to solve problems

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Components of componential intelligence

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Meta component, performance components, knowledge acquisition

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Contextual intelligence

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Practical intelligence/street smartness

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Experiential Intelligence

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Creative intelligence

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PASS model

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Planning, Attention-Arousal and Simultaneous-successive model by J.P Das, Jack Naglieri and Kirby (1994)

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The battery of tests developed by Das and Naglieri

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Cognitive assessment system

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Correlation of intelligence between identical twins reared apart

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0.72

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Correlation of intelligence between fraternal twins reared together

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0.60

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Correlation of intelligence between siblings reared together

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0.50

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Correlation of intelligence between siblings reared apart

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0.25

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Mental Age

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The measure of person’s intellectual development relative to people of her/his age group

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Formula for IQ

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MA/CA * 100

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IQ of a 10-year-old with an MA of 12

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120

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The frequency distribution of IQ scores

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Normal curve

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IQ above 130

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very superior (2.2)

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IQ of 120-130

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Superior (6.7)

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IQ of 110-119

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High average (16.1)

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Average IQ range

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90-109 (50.0)

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Low average IQ range

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80-89 (16.1)

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IQ range of 70-79

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Borderline (6.7)

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Intellectually disabled

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IQ below 70 (2.2)

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Intellectually gifted

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Very superior IQ

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Intellectual Disability

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Significantly sub-average general intellectual functioning existing concurrently with deficits in adaptive behavior and manifested during developmental period

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Mild ID

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IQ 50-70

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IQ of 35-40

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Moderate

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Severe ID

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IQ of 20-25

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IQ below 20

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Profound

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According to teachers, giftedness involves

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high ability, high creativity, and high commitment

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Types of Intelligence tests

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Individual or group test, verbal, non-verbal, or performance tests, culture-fair or culture biased tests

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S.M Mohsin

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Intelligence test in Hindi in the 1930s

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Binet’s test in Urdu and Punjabi

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C. H. Rice

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Uday Shankar

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CIE Verbal Group Test of Intelligence

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R. Ramalingaswamy

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Adaptation of Weschler Adult Performance Intelligence Scale

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NLEPT

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The National Library of Educational and Psychological Tests

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Vygotsky

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Culture provides a social context in which people live, grow, and understand the world around them

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Culture

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Collective system of customs, beliefs, attitudes, and achievements in art and literature

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Technological intelligence

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Skills of generalization and abstraction, speed, minimal moves, and mental manipulation among children

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Integral intelligence

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gives emphasis on connectivity with social and world environment

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Buddhi

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Skills such as mental effort, determined action, feelings, and opinions along with cognitive competencies such as knowledge, discrimination, and understanding

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Cognitive capacity

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Sensitivity to context, understanding, discrimination, problem-solving and effective communication

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Social competence

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respect for social order, commitment to elders, the young, and the needy, concerns about others, and recognizing others’ perspectives

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Emotional competence

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Self-regulation and self-monitoring of emotions, honesty, politeness, good conduct, and self-evaluation

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Emotional intelligence

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Skills that underlie accurate appraisal, expression, and regulation of emotions

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EI according to Salovey and Mayer

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The ability to monitor one’s own and other’s emotions, to discriminate among them, and to use the information to guide one’s thinking and actions

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Two forms of aptitude tests

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Independent (specialized) and multiple (generalized)

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DAT

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Differential Aptitude Tests

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GATB

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General Aptitude Test Battery

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ASVAB

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Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery

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Relationship between intelligence and creativity

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Some level of intelligence is required for creativity, but more intelligence does not ensure more creativity

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Some psychologists who have developed creativity tests are

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Guildford, Torrance, Khatena, Wallach, Kogan, Paramesh, Baqer Mehdi and Passi

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