An aptitude is an innate inborn ability to do a certain kind of work.

Aptitudes may be physical or mental.

Aptitude and intelligence quotient are related, and in some ways opposite, views of human mental ability.

Whereas intelligence quotient sees intelligence as being a single measurable characteristic affecting all mental ability, aptitude breaks mental ability down into many different characteristics which are supposed to be more or less independent of each other.

However, a casual analysis of any group of test scores will nearly always show them to be highly correlated.

For more information about the topic Aptitude, read the full article at Wikipedia.org, or see the following related articles:

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An aptitude is an innate inborn ability to do a certain kind of work.

Aptitudes may be physical or mental.

Aptitude and intelligence quotient are related, and in some ways opposite, views of human mental ability.

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Aptitude

An aptitude is an innate inborn ability to do a certain kind of work.

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• Perception
• Child Psychology
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• Psychology
• Neuroscience

Aptitudes may be physical or mental.

Aptitude and intelligence quotient are related, and in some ways opposite, views of human mental ability.

Whereas intelligence quotient sees intelligence as being a single measurable characteristic affecting all mental ability, aptitude breaks mental ability down into many different characteristics which are supposed to be more or less independent of each other.

However, a casual analysis of any group of test scores will nearly always show them to be highly correlated.

For more information about the topic Aptitude, read the full article at Wikipedia.org, or see the following related articles:

Intellectual giftedness — Intellectual giftedness is an intellectual ability significantly higher than average. Giftedness is a trait that starts at birth and continues ...  > read more

Cognition — The term cognition is used in several loosely related ways to refer to a faculty for the human-like processing of information, applying knowledge and ...  > read more

Mental retardation — Mental retardation is a term for a pattern of persistently slow learning of basic motor and language skills ("milestones") during childhood, and a ...  > read more

Intelligence quotient — An intelligence quotient or IQ is a score derived from a set of standardized tests developed to measure a person's cognitive abilities ...  > read more

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Editor's Note: This article is not intended to provide medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.

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