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Charles Darwin's book On the Origin of Species had a profound effect on William James and influenced his ideas about the importance of adaptation to environmental changes.
Primary Mental Abilities
Fundamental skills and cognitive functions such as reasoning, memory, and perception that are considered essential for intelligence.
Inductive Reasoning
A rational procedure where several assumed or generally true statements are merged together to derive a particular outcome.
Word Fluency
The ability to rapidly retrieve words from memory, often tested by asking individuals to produce as many words as possible from a category in a limited time.
Fluid Intelligence
The aspect of intelligence involved in the ability to think abstractly, reason quickly, and solve problems in novel situations, independent of acquired knowledge.
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