Intelligence

Intelligence has been defined in many ways: the capacity for abstraction, logic, understanding, self-awareness, learning, emotional knowledge, reasoning, planning, creativity, critical thinking, and problem-solving. It can be described as the ability to perceive or infer information and to retain it as knowledge to be applied to adaptive behaviors within an environment or context. The term rose to prominence during the early 1900s.

Extends: Intelligence, [Developmental psychology](https://wikipedia.org.ai/Developmental psychology), [Psychological testing](https://wikipedia.org.ai/Psychological testing), [Differential psychology](https://wikipedia.org.ai/Differential psychology)