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Intelligence

Intelligence is the capacity or ability to acquire, apprehend and apply knowledge in a behavioral context. The term rose to prominence during the early 1900's, coinciding the emergence of behaviorism. Intelligence differs from intellect, with the latter being measured in cognitive performance rather than behavior as a whole. In the case of human intelligence, one can be intelligent in more than a single domain, take for example abstraction, logic, understanding, self-awareness, learning, emotional knowledge, reasoning, planning, creativity, critical thinking, and problem-solving. According to American psychologist Howard Gardner, intelligence can be divided into multiple intelligences or intelligent performances. Similarly, intellect can be interpreted as an aggregate of intellects or intellectual performances.

More generally, intelligence can be described as the capacity or ability to perceive or infer information, and to retain it as knowledge to be applied towards adaptive behaviors within an environment or context. Intelligence is most often studied in humans but has also been observed in both non-human animals and in plants despite controversy as to whether some of these forms of life exhibit intelligence. Intelligence in computers or other machines is called artificial intelligence.