4. INTELLIGENCE Is the capacity to think and understand. It includes the combination of various separate abilities which is the verbal communication, abstract thinking, logical reasoning and use of common senses.
5. Four Different Approaches Psychometric Approach Factor Analysis and General Intelligence Cognitive Approach Implicit Theory Approach
11. COMPONENT METACOMPONENT COMPONENTS include all the cognitive processes that afford the person ability to respond to stimuli, store information, perform mental comparisons, arrive at solutions and engage in a system of recall from long term memory METACOMPONENTS are the higher-order processes that we use to analyze a problem and to pick a strategy for solving it.
17. Other Individual differences Critical Period – is the stage at which an individual is most sensitive to the presence or absence of some particular experience. Sensitive Period – is the stage at which a child may be particularly responsive to specific forms of experience or particularly influenced by their absence.