reason about a particular form of
information, such as verbal information.”
John Mayer and colleagues define
intelligence as “a mental ability or
a set of mental abilities...” In this
book, however, the word “intelligence”
always means a set of mental abilities.
For most lay readers the word
“intelligence” is associated with the
intelligence quotient (IQ), widely used
as a measure of mental abilities for
clinical, and sometimes, occupational