Intelligence
* All intelligence is the seeking of pleasure and the avoidance of pain.
* Every intelligence has a developmental history
  - symbol system
* Has wide range of information and accurately applies it to problems and tasks.
* always belong to individuals.
* appears to be the outward sign of a conscious being.
* basic requirement for the other skills to be learned.
* can also denote an individual difference
  - develop throughout our lives
  - isolate individuals in such a way
  - mean a variety of things to any individual or group of people
* capacity, or an ability, in a designated area of knowledge.
* combination of common sense, sense of humor, and point of view.
* comes from knowledge
  - wanting to change the world
* comes in many forms, only one of which spreadsheet or some quantifiable result
  - varieties
* construct that is used to explain competence.
* creates technology which enhances intelligence.
* declines with age.
* defined and fixed capacity.
* depends on size and organization of the brain.
* dictates the number of languages a character can learn.
* distributed phenomenon.
* does have a genetic component.
* emerges with sufficient configural complexity of neurons.
* faculty of the artificer of anything artificial.
* flows through everything in the universe, and has had many names.
* function of experience Emotions are the gatekeeper to learning
  - and can be changed through guided mediation
  - organisation
  - the number of connections learned
* general aptitude.
* grows throughout childhood, and can be increased given supportive experiences.
* has an effect on many aspects of our lives including motivation and understanding
  - other features, one of which is the capacity to learn
* higher form than thinking.
* improves management, saves money, reduces stress.
* includes the ability to reason.
* increases through childhood.
* involves puzzle solving.
* is ability to learn
  - about more than being able to solve math problems
  - administrative units
  - all about learning to adapt to new situations
  - almost always normal and the person is able to lead a normal and productive life
  - also throughout the human body
  - always at odds with instinct
* is an aspect of behaviour that has been studied in relation to genetics
  - the total personality, rather than an isolated entity
* is an important attribute for learning complex skills and magical abilities
  - element of national strength
  - factor in how the individual responds to education
  - instrument in the service of love
  - based on speed, efficiency of use and memory capacity as well
  - basically the way the government figures out what is going on
  - biological
* is composed of a general ability that underlies all intellectual functions
  - cognitive, psychological or emotional, and moral realms
  - concentration
  - congruency and integrity
  - difficult to measure in an autistic person
  - directly proportional to facial hair
  - discussed as a set of cognitive processes used to solve problems
  - distilled information
  - equated with verbal memory
  - evolution or self improvement or adapting
  - fundamentally a memory-based process
* is information gathering
  - properly understood and effectively applied
  - inherent in everything
  - inherited and unchanging
  - inhibited by engrams which feed false or improperly graded data to the mind
  - inversely proportional to body size
  - just the process for finding out what one needs to know
  - located in universes
  - material in nature
  - memory that organizes itself
  - modifiable at every age and ability level
* is more than a grade on a math test
  - an ability to read what is out there
  - omniscience and omnipotence
* is one form of human behavior that is polygenetic
  - of hundreds of career fields in the uniformed military
  - one's overall effectiveness as measured by standard IQ tests
* is only one factor of personality
  - of many qualities crucial to life
  - one-tenth of memory
  - tissue deep
  - primarily a genetically inherited trait
  - processed information
  - quickness in seeing things as they are
  - reflection upon what is needed to direct the conditions of the present situation
  - related to social problems
  - relative to the context in which it is embedded
  - something that grows or forms in a social setting
* is the ability for components of a belief to intereact
  - to judge better or worse via reasoning
* is the ability to learn and understand
  - from experience
  - or understand from experience
  - perceive patterns
  - process facts and respond according to the given situation
  - understand a given situation
  - understand, think, and learn
  - art of good guesswork
  - best predictor of job performance
* is the capacity for learning and constructive problem solving
  - to gain information
  - evolutionary result of chance events in the development of the universe
  - faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools
  - flower of discrimination
  - foundation of free government
  - light which reveals educational opportunities in experience
  - mental management of semiotic systems
  - most important talent of our whole species
  - outcome of the brain's reasoning, planning, and solving problems
  - same as thinking
  - source of that type of power
  - subject of many myths and misunderstandings
  - underlying organisational principle of the universe
  - variable about which most is known
  - understood as the ability to solve cognitive problems
  - used as an example of a complex human behavior, as is novelty-seeking behavior
* is very different from creativity
  - difficult to measure even with human beings
* is, after all, a socially mediated process.
* major determinant of the effectiveness with which jobs are performed.
* mosaic of ideas to bring about inspiration.
* occurs in different parts of the brain.
* plays a major role in human behavior
  - an important part in comedy
* produces the actions which constitute life by animating the material body.
* product of evolution
  - genetic inheritance
* provides opportunity.
* quality of awareness but still vague.
* rating of an individual's depth and flexibility of thought.
* represents entities at work.
* requires large brains and thus large cranial sizes.
* reveals problems.
* scale created by man.
* scarce resource that god gives to some people.
* shows the way in which the mind works.
* sometimes overlaps with such personality traits as curiosity and persistence.
* subset of information.
* takes many forms
  - the place of mutation in humans for adapting to environmental stress
* tends to be normal in most individuals, but mild intellectual disability is possible.
* thing, an entity that is displayed in one's performance.
* uses symbols.
* varies from normal to delayed mental ability.
* vital element of our nation's power and influence.