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| Changing one's thoughts to better approximate the world of experience. |
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| Using currently available knowledge to make sense out of incoming information. |
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| Cognitive-Structural Approach |
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| An approach to intelligence that emphasizes the ways in which people conceptualize problems and focuses on modes or styles of thinking. |
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| Crystallized Intelligence |
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| Knowledge acquired through life experience and education in a particular culture. |
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| The idea that the processes of thinking become connected to the products of thinking. |
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| The interrelations among performances on similar tests of psychometric intelligence. |
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| Abilities that make one a flexible and adaptive thinker, that allow one to draw inferences, and that allow one to understand the relations among concepts independent of acquired knowledge and experience. |
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| Interindividual Variability |
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| An acknowledgment that adults differ in the direction of their intellectual development. |
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| The notion that intelligence consists of many dimensions. |
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| The distinct patterns of change in abilities over the life span, with these patterns being different for different abilities. |
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| Optimal Level of Development |
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| In the reflective judgement framework, the highest level of information-processing capacity that a person is capable of. |
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| Optimally Exercised Ability |
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| The ability a normal, healthy adult would demonstrate under the best conditions of training or practice. |
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| The range of functioning within an individual and the conditions under which a person's abilities can be modified within a specific age range. |
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| Thinking characterized by a recognition that truth varies across situations, that solutions must be realistic to be reasonable, that ambiguity and contradiction are the rule rather than the exception, and that emotion and subjective factors play a role in thinking. |
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| Independent abilities within psychometric intelligence based on different combinations of standardized intelligence tests. |
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| An approach to intelligence involving defining it as performance on standardized tests. |
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| Thinking that involves how people reason through dilemmas involving current affairs, religion, science, and the like. |
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| Secondary Mental Abilities |
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| Broad-ranging skills composed of several primary mental abilities. |
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| In the reflective judgement framework, the gradual, and somewhat haphazard, process by which people learn new abilities. |
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| The ability a normal, healthy adult would exhibit without practice or training. |
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