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Intelligence, General Knowledge, and Social Understanding

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The tests reviewed in this chapter assess an assortment of abilities and areas of knowledge: general knowledge, practical intelligence, social understanding, sequencing, and verbal arithmetic problem-solving.

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Anderson, R.M. (1994). Intelligence, General Knowledge, and Social Understanding. In: Practitioner’s Guide to Clinical Neuropsychology. Critical Issues in Neuropsychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-2480-9_18

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