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Lecture 3: The Experiential and Contextual Subtheories

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Human Assessment: Cognition and Motivation

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According to the triarchic theory, there are two facets of one’s experience with tasks and situations that are particularly crucial to intelligent behaviour. These facets are the ability to deal with with novel kinds of tasks and situations, and the ability to automatise information processing.

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Sternberg, R.J. (1986). Lecture 3: The Experiential and Contextual Subtheories. In: Newstead, S.E., Irvine, S.H., Dann, P.L. (eds) Human Assessment: Cognition and Motivation. NATO ASI Series, vol 27. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4406-0_11

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