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  2. Psychological stress - Wikipedia

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    Hans Selye defined stress as “the nonspecific (that is, common) result of any demand upon the body, be the effect mental or somatic.” [5] This includes the medical definition of stress as a physical demand and the colloquial definition of stress as a psychological demand. A stressor is inherently neutral meaning that the same stressor can ...

  3. Typical intellectual engagement - Wikipedia

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    Typical intellectual engagement (TIE) is a personality construct referring to a person's enjoyment (or dislike) of intellectually demanding activities. [1] TIE was developed to identify aspects of personality most closely related to intelligence and knowledge and measures a person's typical performance in intellectual domains rather than their maximal performance (intellectual capacity ...

  4. Competence (polyseme) - Wikipedia

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    Lastly, intellectual character includes curiosity and enthusiasm. Based on this research orientation, Park et. al. found that interpersonal competence predicts positive peer relations, intrapersonal competence predicts grades and regulated behavior, and intellectual competence predicts class participation and active learning. [41]

  5. Intellectualization - Wikipedia

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    By using complex terminology, the focus becomes on the words and finer definitions rather than the human effects. Intellectualization protects against anxiety by repressing the emotions connected with an event. A comparison sometimes made is that between isolation (also known as isolation of affect) and intellectualization. The former is a ...

  6. Cognitive skill - Wikipedia

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    Cognitive science has provided theories of how the brain works, and these have been of great interest to researchers who work in the empirical fields of brain science.A fundamental question is whether cognitive functions, for example visual processing and language, are autonomous modules, or to what extent the functions depend on each other.

  7. Cognitive resource theory - Wikipedia

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    Intellectual abilities can only be utilised efficiently in difficult, cognitively demanding tasks. Therefore, the leader's abilities and intelligence only aid organisational success when they are directive, in a stress free situation, the organisations' members are supportive and the task requires high intellect.

  8. IQ classification - Wikipedia

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    A major point of consensus among all scholars of intellectual giftedness is that there is no generally agreed upon definition of giftedness. [105] Although there is no scholarly agreement about identifying gifted learners, there is a de facto reliance on IQ scores for identifying participants in school gifted education programs.

  9. Human intelligence - Wikipedia

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    Human intelligence is the intellectual capability of humans, which is marked by complex cognitive feats and high levels of motivation and self-awareness.Using their intelligence, humans are able to learn, form concepts, understand, and apply logic and reason.