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Study of intellect

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Psychometric approach

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Nature of intelligent thinking

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Cognitive process approaches

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Beyond mental competencies

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Broader conceptions of intelligence

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The ability to acquire knowledge?

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Intelligence

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Franics Galton?

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Proposed that mental ability is inherited

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Binet’s assumptions?

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Mental ability develops with age

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David Wechsler proposed?

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Intelligence is a set of verbal and non-verbal skills

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Reducing large amount of data to smaller number of clusters or factors

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Factor analysis

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Intelligence performance governed by 7 specific abilities

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Thurstone’s primary abilities

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Space

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Reasoning about visual scenes

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Verbal comprehension

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Understanding verbal statements

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Word fluency

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Producing verbal statements

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Number facility

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Dealing with numbers

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Perceptual speed

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Recognizing visual patterns

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Rote memory

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Memorizing

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Reasoning

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Dealing with novel problems

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The three levels of cognitive skills (Carroll’s Three Stratum Model)

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General
Broad
Narrow

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Three specific components

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  • Metacomponents
  • Performance components
  • Knowledge acquisition components
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The Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test (MSCEIT) Branches

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Branch 1: perceiving emotions
Branch 2: Using emotions to facilitate thought
Branch 3: Understanding emotions
Branch 4: Managing emotions

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Stronger emotional bonds
Greater success
Less depression

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Adaptive advantages in managing emotions

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Designed to discover how much someone knows

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Achievement tests

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Measure potential for future learning and performance

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Aptitude tests

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Psychometric standards?

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Test-retest reliability
Internal consistency
Interjudge reliability

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Administer measure to same participants twice and correlate scores

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Test-retest reliability

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All of the items of the test should measure the same thing

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Internal consistency

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Consistency of measurement when different people score the same test

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Interjudge reliability

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Does a test measure what it is supposed to measure?

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Construct

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Do items measure knowledge or skills that comprise the construct?

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Content

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How well does test score predict criterion measures?

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Criterion-related

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Standardization

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Development of norms

Controlled procedures

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Development of norms

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Provide basis for interpreting individual score - give it meaning

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Controlled procedures

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Control for extraneous factors

Explicit instructions & procedures

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Males?

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greater information processing

6.5 times as much grey matter

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Females?

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greater connectivity

10 times amount of white mater

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Quarter to a third of variability

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Is attributed to shared environmental factors

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Children removed from deprived environment show increase in IQ of?

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10-12 points

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Underestimates true intellectual ability

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Outcome bias

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Predicts outcome measures for some groups but not others

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Predictive bias

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Nature-nurture?

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Differences between ethnic groups are narrowing

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Environmental factors are important

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Analogy for genes and environment

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Stern’s intelligence Quotient

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IQ basically

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IQ formula

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Mental age/ Chronological age x 100

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Stanford-Binet vs Wechsler

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Binet/Stanford was mostly verbal with IQ score

Wechsler was a series of subtests which included verbal as well as performance tests

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What are the major approaches to the study of intelligence

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Psychometric

Cognitive processes approach

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Intelligence performance was governed by

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General Intelligence and Specific abilities

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Apply previously learned knowledge into current problems

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Crystallized Intelligence

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Fluid intelligence

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Deal with novel situations without prior knowledge

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Crystallized intelligence will _______ with aging

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Not decline

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Fluid intelligence will _______ with aging

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decrease

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The lengths of the arrows from stratum 3 to stratum 2 represent?

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The contribution of the g factor to each stratum 2 ability

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Triarchic Theory of Intelligence

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Part of cognitive process approach

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What does the triarchic theory (sternberg) address?

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Psychological processes involved in intelligent behavior

Diverse forms that intelligence can take

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Metacomponents?

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Plan and regulate task behaviour

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Execute strategies specified by meta components

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Performance components

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Encode and storing information

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Knowledge acquisition components

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Gardner’s Multiple Intelligence

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8 relatively independent intelligences

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Linguistic Intelligence?

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Ability to use language (think writers)

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Logical Mathematical Intelligence

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The ability to reason mathematically and logically

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Visuospatial Intelligence

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Ability to solve spatial problems (think architecture)

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Musical intelligence

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Ability to perceive pitch and rhythm and to understand and produce music

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Bodily-kinesthetic intelligence

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Ability to control body movements and skillfully manipulate objects (dancers, athletes, surgeons)

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Interpersonal intelligence

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Ability to understand and relate well to others

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Intrapersonal intelligence

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Ability to understand oneself

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Naturalistic intelligence

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Ability to understand phenomena in the natural world (zoologists and meteorologist)

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Existential Intelligence

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Philosophy oriented ability to ponder questions about the meaning of one’s existence, life and death

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Reading others emotions accurately
Respond to them appropriately
Motivate oneself
Aware of one's own emotions
Regulate and control one's own emotional repsonses
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Emotional intelligence

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Emotional Intelligence leads to?

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  • Stronger emotional bonds
  • greater success
  • Less depression
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Achievement tests

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designed to discover how much someone knows

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Aptitude tests

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Measure potential for future learning and performance

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Achievement pros

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Metric of future performance

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Achievement cons?

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Assumes same opportunities for learning

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Aptitude pros?

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Depends less on prior knowledge

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Aptitude cons?

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Difficult to construct tests independent of prior knowledge

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Reliability

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Test-retest reliability
Internal consistency
Inter judge Reliability

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Test-retest reliability

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Administer measure to same participants twice and correlate scores

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Internal consistency

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All of the items of the test should measure the same thing

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Interjudge reliability

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Consistency of measurement when different people score the same test

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Validity

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Accuracy

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Does a test measure what it is supposed to

measure?

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Construct

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Do items measure knowledge or skills that

comprise the construct?

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Content

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How well does test score predict criterion

measures?

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Criterion Related

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Flynn Effect

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IQ scores increasing over time as a result of nutrition or environment or technological advances

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Use problems not tied to knowledge base of culture

Create measures tailored to kinds of knowledge valued in particular culture

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Assessing intelligence in Non-Western Cultures

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Raven
Progressive
Matrice measures

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Fluid intelligence

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What controls intellectual activities

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The brain

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Which brain parts have seen notable increase due to evolution

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Cerebral cortex and frontal lobes

87
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Is brain size related to intelligence in humans

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No, efficiency is key

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Males have

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Greater information processing and 6.5 times as much grey matter

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Females have

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Greater connectivity and 10 times the amount of white matter

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Strong genetic component

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No intelligence gene

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Quarter to a third of variability attributed to?

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Shared environmental factors

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Children removed from deprived environments show increase in IQ of?

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10-12 pts

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Outcome bias

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Underestimating intellectual ability

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Predictive bias

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Predicting outcome measures for some but not others

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Better at
perceptual speed
Verbal fluency
Mathematical calculation
Fine motor coordination
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Females

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Spatial tasks
Throwing, catching
Mathematical Reasoning

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Males

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What is considered gifted

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130+ IQ (10% of population)

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Eminence

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-Highly developed mental abilities but also specific abilities related to ones field
Creative problem solving
Motivation/dedication

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Cognitively disabled

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3-5% of population
Mildly disabled can enter school
Problems with reading, writing, memory,
mathematical computation

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