Chapter 10 MGS 3400 Word Scramble

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Ability	relatively stable capabilities people have to perform a particular range of different but related activities. of both genes and the environment.
Cognitive abilities	capabilities related to the acquisition and application of knowledge in problem solving.
Verbal ability	to various capabilities associated with understanding and expressing oral and written communication.
Oral comprehension	ability to understand spoken words and sentences.
Written comprehension	the ability to understand written words and sentences
Oral expression	ability to communicate ideas by speaking
Written expression	the ability to communicate ideas in writing.
Quantitative ability	refers to two types of mathematical capabilities. Number facility and mathematical reasoning.
Number facility	capability to do simple math operations (adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing).
Mathematical reasoning	the ability to choose and apply formulas to solve problems that involve numbers.
Reasoning ability	actually a diverse set of abilities associated with sensing and solving problems using insight, rules, and logic.
Problem sensitivity	the ability to sense that there’s a problem or likely will be one.
Deductive reasoning	the use of general rules to solve problems.
Inductive reasoning	the ability to consider several specific pieces of information and then reach a more general conclusion regarding how those pieces are related
Originality	the ability to develop clever and novel ways to solve problems
Spatial ability	Spatial orientation Visualization
Spatial orientation	having a good understanding of where one is relative to other things in the environment
Visualization	ability to imagine how separate things will look if they were put together in a particular way.
Perceptual abilities	generally refer to being able to perceive, understand, and recall patterns of information.
Speed and flexibility of closure	being able to pick out a pattern of information quickly in the presence of distracting information, even without all the information present.
Perceptual speed	being able to examine and compare numbers, letters, and objects quickly.
general mental ability	sometimes called g or the g factor —that underlies or causes all of the more specific cognitive abilities discussed so far.
Emotional intelligence	human ability that affects social functioning.
Self-awareness	the appraisal and expression of emotions in oneself
Other awareness	appraisal and recognition of emotion in others
Emotion regulation	being able to recover quickly from emotional experiences
Use of emotions	the degree to which people can harness emotions and employ them to improve their chances of being successful in whatever they are seeking to do.
Strength	degree to which the body is capable of exerting force.
Static strength	the ability to lift, push, or pull very heavy objects using the hands, arms, legs, shoulder, or back.
Explosive strength	when the person exerts short bursts of energy to move him- or herself or an object.
Dynamic strength	the ability to exert force for a prolonged period of time without becoming overly fatigued and giving out.
Stamina	the ability of a person’s lungs and circulatory system to work efficiently while he or she is engaging in prolonged physical activity
Flexibility	the ability to bend, stretch, twist, or reach.
Extent flexibility	when people need to work in a cramped compartment or an awkward position
Dynamic flexibility	when a job requires repeated and somewhat quick bends, stretches, twists, or reaches.
Gross body coordination	the ability to synchronize the movements of the body, arms, and legs to do something while the whole body is in motion.
Gross body equilibrium	ability to maintain the balance of the body in unstable contexts or when the person has to change directions.
Psychomotor abilities	generally refer to the capacity to manipulate and control objects
Fine manipulative abilities	the ability to keep the arms and hands steady while using the hands to do precise work.
Control movement abilities	important in tasks for which people have to make different precise adjustments using machinery to complete the work effectively.
Response orientation	the ability to choose the right action quickly in response to several different signals.
Response time	how quickly an individual responds to signaling information after it occurs
Sensory abilities	capabilities associated with vision and hearing.
Near and far vision	the ability to see things up close and at a distance or in low light contexts
Visual color discrimination and depth perception	the ability to perceive colors and judge relative distances between things accurately.
Hearing sensitivity	the capability to hear and discriminate sounds that vary in terms of loudness and pitch.
Auditory attention	being able to focus on a single sound in the presence of many other sounds.
Speech recognition	the ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.
Wonderlic Personnel Test	12-minute test of general cognitive ability that consists of 50 questions.

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