ABSTRACT
Intelligence has been said to concern various abilities. These are the ability to ‘understand complex ideas’, ‘adapt effectively to the environment’, ‘learn from experience’, ‘engage in various forms of reasoning’ and overcome obstacles by thinking about them (American Psychological Association Task Force, 1995). Individuals differ from one another in these abilities. If this conceptual outline is accepted, it follows that intelligent activity would involve related features such as seeing the essentials in a given situation and responding appropriately to them. There is debate about what responding appropriately might mean and what samples of such behaviour might be suitable to form part of any assessments of intelligence.
