The phrase
"intellectual ability" refers to a person's capacity for thinking, understanding, and solving problems using their brainpower. It describes how smart or intelligent someone is.
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Domestic violence also indirectly affected both types
of intellectual abilities through its impact on maternal depression and the intellectual quality of the home environment.
The peripheral nervous system has no known role
in intellectual ability, but it does regulate organ function including heartbeat, blood pressure and blood glucose.
Try to think of the last time you encountered a news story that mentioned low
intellectual ability as the reason why some students do not perform at grade level.
I encountered some superb theologians who combined a
great intellectual ability with a Christian faith that was deeply convincing.
Or, as is the case with the collaborative story - writing ideas that we'll be discussing, there is explicit space made for students to first use their
own intellectual abilities.
The emphasis is on
developing intellectual abilities and research skills through investigations of infectious diseases of food - producing, companion, and aquatic animals, as well as animal models for human disease.
We look for a rare combination of razor -
sharp intellectual ability, commercial awareness, analytical skills, flexibility, teamwork and the confidence and credibility to present your opinions to senior clients.
It occurs across the range
of intellectual abilities and is best thought of as a continuum, not a distinct category, with no clear cut - off points.
This technique pointed out particular versions of 22 genes, half of which were not previously known to have a role
in intellectual ability.
It will also work to determine the focus you place
on intellectual ability, professional ambition, and relationship goals.
Does the grade 9 student have
greater intellectual ability and academic potential or are they simply better at writing fast, or better at checking for silly errors?
This allows students with
low intellectual ability to focus on an area of potential success without having to announce he is incapable of being something requiring superior intelligence.
Childcare work requires an understanding of human development, including knowledge of physical, emotional, behavioral and
intellectual abilities at each stage of childhood.
The authors found the same association in a secondary study for African - Americans, who also face stereotypes
about intellectual ability.
Evidence is showing that music has the power to
increase intellectual ability by stimulating electrical responses in the brain, promoting creativity, increasing receptivity to learning by inducing a relaxed state, and capitalizing on instinctive body rhythms which stimulate conceptual ability.
Alzheimer's is a type of dementia, a general term for memory loss and the loss of
other intellectual abilities serious enough to interfere with daily life.
Schenk offers clear solutions to improving student motivation in developing
intellectual ability by pointing that the means of measurement, namely standardized tests, do not provide fixed results, and there is always room for student improvement.
Intellectual ability does seem to be in part dependent upon inherited factors, but it is also greatly influenced by environment.
Alzheimer's is the most common form of dementia: a general term for loss of memory and other
intellectual abilities serious enough to interfere with daily life.
He proposed seven such amendments, including: «We will take charge over our genetic programming and achieve mastery of our biological and neurological processes... refining and augmenting our physical and
intellectual abilities beyond those of any human in history» and «we will cautiously yet boldly reshape our motivational patterns and emotional responses... We will seek to improve upon typical human and emotional responses, bring about refined emotions.»
Children of anemic mothers in the MMN group scored substantially higher in
general intellectual ability, a difference comparable to the increase associated with an additional full year of schooling.
For example, to receive formal services for the gifted part of the 2e equation, some schools require high scores on a standardized test of
intellectual ability such as the Naglieri Nonverbal Ability Test or the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children — IV (WISC - IV); other schools require exceptional scores on state achievement tests; and very rarely do schools recognize nonacademic gifts such as dance, leadership, or art, to qualify for the program.
Then, as the research suggests, a post-graduate degree with workplace experience will give you a higher chance of obtaining a role, versus a candidate with the
same intellectual ability without experience.
What began to amuse me, after some months of research, was that even private schools that required no evidence of
intellectual ability for admission were still insisting to me that all their students were gifted, when in fact they had no factual basis for saying so.
Interviewing is followed by two kinds of tests: cognitive tests, which
measure intellectual ability, and personality tests, which are now sophisticated enough that companies can directly compare candidates with their top performers.
They include structural differences in the skeleton, the muscles, the skin, and the brain; differences in posture as - 0sociated with a unique method of locomotion; differences in social or - ganization; and finally the acquisition of speech and tool - using, together with the dramatic increase in
intellectual ability which has led scientists to name their own species Ho - m - o sapiens sapiens — wise wise man.
George Bush père was never thought unintelligent — he had served in posts
demanding intellectual ability, like ambassador to China and head of the CIA — but fluent in speaking he was not.