BIOLOGICAL BASES OF BEHAVIOR
BIOLOGY OF CONSCIOUSNESS
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an inborn ability to perform well on standard intelligence tests.
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a mental ability to learn from experience.
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a general trait that underlies success on nearly any task.
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a multiple array of completely independent adaptive traits.
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the unconscious processing that occurs as the first step in problem solving
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Detailed explanation-1: -Experts would most likely agree that intelligence is a(n): mental ability to learn from experiences.
Detailed explanation-2: -Gardner’s theory has come under criticism from both psychologists and educators. These critics argue that Gardner’s definition of intelligence is too broad and that his eight different “intelligences” simply represent talents, personality traits, and abilities.
Detailed explanation-3: -Intelligence has been defined in many ways: the capacity for abstraction, logic, understanding, self-awareness, learning, emotional knowledge, reasoning, planning, creativity, critical thinking, and problem-solving.
Detailed explanation-4: -In order to assess whether intelligence is a single trait or a collection of several distinct abilities, psychologists have made extensive use of: factor analysis.