Question

What do you mean by Intelligence. What are the important assessment attributes for Psychologist.

Answer 1

a) Intelligence: It is global capacity to understand the world, think in a sensible and logical manner, and use the resources available with you effectively to face challenges.

b) Aptitude: refers to an individual's underlying potential to acquire any new skills.

c) Interest: refers to an individual's choice for engaging in one or more specific activities in comparison to others.

d) Personality: refers to an individual's strong characteristics that make this person different from others. Personality assessment helps us to explain an individual's behaviour and predict how she/ he will behave future.

e) Values: refers to an individual's strong and lasting beliefs about an ideal mode of behaviour. Assessment of values helps in understanding the dominant values of a person.

Intelligence is the global capacity to understand the world, think in a sensible and logical manner, and use the resources available with you effectively to face challenges.