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Thank you We sneak And here's your shmoop du jour

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brought to you by street smarts which often boil down

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to how well developed your father flight mechanism is how

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one processes information thinks and interacts with others is known

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as what And here the potential answers aren't memory personality

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emotional frantz intelligence street smarts horrible The term street smarts

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refers to the experience and know how necessary to handle

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life on the streets or anywhere populated with thuggish rodents

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No we're looking for and memory isn't what we're after

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either Remember we're looking for how one processes information thinks

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and interact with others If we were asking about one's

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ability to recall past events involving say a stolen ice

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cream cone and memory would certainly fit but that's not

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the case here And while one's personality influences their social

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interactions the term personality refers more toe patterns of thinking

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feeling and behaving it's a difference point one streetwise rat

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being cocky and arrogant and scary another equally streetwise rat

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being slightly less cocky and arrogant and scary The term

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emotional response refers to a specific reaction to a stimulus

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often resulting in physiological changes or eby eh vural response

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you know like feeling Pretty down on yourself after losing

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your lunch to a group of rough and tumble rodents

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and desperately trying not to shed a tear in front

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of them leaving us with the correct answer D intelligence

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Intelligence is both hard to define and hard to measure

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and so is often categorize differently Depending on the theory

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However it's commonly agreed upon that intelligence involves the way

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that processed information affects our thoughts and personal interactions Which

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is why this is the answer we were looking for

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Another less widely discussed aspect of intelligence is the ability 00:01:47.212 --> [endTime] tio to just walk away

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