Ability
=The relatively stable capabilities people have to perform a particular range of different but related
activities Skills [Can be improved]
Nature vs Nurture:
1. Quantity of schooling
2. Choice of occupation
3. Certain biological factors (Nutrition)
Personality: ‘What people are like’
[ Ability: ‘What people can do’]
COGNITIVE ABILITY
1. Verbal ability: →Oral / Written comprehension
→Oral/ Written expression
2. Quantitative ability: →Number facility
1 Chapter 10: Ability →Mathematical Reasoning
3. Reasoning ability: →Problem sensitivity
→Deductive reasoning
→Inductive reasoning
→Originality
4. Spatial ability: →Spatial orientation
→Visualization
5. Perceptual ability: →Speed & Flexibility of closure
→Perceptual speed
6. General cognitive ability
=The relatively stable capabilities people have to perform a particular range of different but related
activities Skills [Can be improved]
Nature vs Nurture:
1. Quantity of schooling
2. Choice of occupation
3. Certain biological factors (Nutrition)
Personality: ‘What people are like’
[ Ability: ‘What people can do’]
COGNITIVE ABILITY
1. Verbal ability: →Oral / Written comprehension
→Oral/ Written expression
2. Quantitative ability: →Number facility
1 Chapter 10: Ability →Mathematical Reasoning
3. Reasoning ability: →Problem sensitivity
→Deductive reasoning
→Inductive reasoning
→Originality
4. Spatial ability: →Spatial orientation
→Visualization
5. Perceptual ability: →Speed & Flexibility of closure
→Perceptual speed
6. General cognitive ability
