mental ability
3
3.7
- noun
:
capacidad mental
- Many students struggle during exams because they lack the necessary mental ability to solve complex problems.
- mental ability test
- standardized mental ability tests
- general mental ability
But all of that self doubt, confusion and sort of doubt in your own mental abilities can result in you worrying about a whole range of situations.
- But all of that self doubt, confusion and sort of doubt in your own mental abilities can result in you worrying about a whole range of situations.
- An intellectually brilliant person who excels at using his or her mental abilities for negative or harmful ends.
- We want to know if vegetarian food assist or obstruct your mental ability.
- Yes, whereas most intelligence test the items actually look like they're measuring some mental ability.
- If you hang around with families that raise up great kids, your kids are going to be healthier, better mental abilities, better performance, just better human beings.
Examples
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For more than twenty years, a fierce public-policy storm has raged over how or whether general mental ability tests should be used in employment selection.
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Learning algebra, students develop the mental abilities that Inhelder and Piaget (1958) called formal operations.
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And that implies all tests of mental ability have something in common.
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I was using it to improve my aging mental abilities.
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Mental ability and achievement criteria must be met in the second plan.
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The relationship of general mental ability to educational and occupational attainment, health, and well-being.
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But all of that self doubt, confusion and sort of doubt in your own mental abilities can result in you worrying about a whole range of situations.
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In addition, a third possible explanation for the differences is that the subjects lacked the mental ability to undo the distortion.
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Vocabulary scores are reported to be an indicator of a child's general mental ability (Sattler, 1992).
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The training program aims to enhance participants' mental ability through various cognitive exercises.
Synonyms
899
2.3
Mental ability to think and learn
418
3.0
Ability to learn, understand, and use knowledge to solve problems
227
3.5
The ability to do, feel, or understand something
72
5.9
The ability to think clearly and understand difficult ideas
11
3.7
The ability to think clearly and make decisions
8
3.4
Mental ability to think and solve problems
4
4.4
The ability to think and understand
3
6.4
Quick, clear thinking that helps you understand and decide
2
6.1
An ability of the mind like memory or thinking
1
2.5
How well a person gets new knowledge and skills from study or experience
1
7.0
A quick and clear way of thinking
To think and answer quickly and correctly, especially when solving problems
How Intelligent
601
4.3
42
4.1
418
3.0
3
3.7
- Specialized
1
3.8
- Offensive
1
8.4
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently derived from combining 'mental' (pertaining to cognition or thought) with 'ability' (capacity or capability), yielding capacity related to mental functions. This adjectival + noun composition is a common, cross-linguistic pattern and would be immediately comprehensible to a B1 learner who knows both constituent words.
Etymology
Mental ability comes from a simple picture: mental means 'of the mind' and ability means the power or skill to do something, so the phrase shows the mind's power 'to learn', 'to understand', and 'to remember'.