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Vanessa Dsilva

Clinical Psychologist, Learning Disability Clinic,

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What Is Intelligence?

bility to a!"#st to !i$erent sit#ations%

bility to learn%

bility to engage in abstract thin&ing%

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De'nition (y Wechsler

)*he aggregate or global capacity o+ thein!ivi!#al to act p#rpose+#lly, thin&

rationally an! !eal e$ectively ith the

environ-ent%.

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De'nition

ggregate an! /lobal i-plies it isreveale! by an in!ivi!#al behavio#r as ahole%

P#rpose+#l i-plies that intelligentbehavio#r is goal !irecte! hich is base!

on !rives an! incentives%

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*est (ehavior

Ens#re the p#rpose o+ #n!ergoingeval#ation%

0se the lang#age he1she is co-+ortableconversing in%

!"#st-ent to the testing sit#ation%

ttention an! concentration%

2eaction to +ail#re%

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Wechslers Intelligence 3cale4or Chil!ren (y Dr M% (hatt

*his scaleincl#!es 56separate s#b7

tests%

ge 89 to589

It yiel!s VerbalI:, Per+or-anceI: an! 4#ll3cale I:%

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WI3C Pro'le

Verbal I: 555

Per+or-ance I: 56;

4#ll 3cale 1 /lobal I: 56