Oral Expression
The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand. |
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| Cancel newspaper delivery by phone | Give instructions to a lost motorist | Explain advanced principles of genetics to college freshmen |
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| Call numbers in a bingo game | Make announcements over the loudspeaker at a sports event | Give a lecture to a large audience |
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Auditory Attention
The ability to focus on a single source of sound in the presence of other distracting sounds. |
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| Recognize the voice of a coworker | Identify a former customer's voice over the telephone | Understand a speech presented by someone with a strange accent |
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Oral Comprehension
The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences. |
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| Understand a television commercial | Understand a coach's oral instructions for a sport | Understand a lecture on advanced physics |
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Gross Body Equilibrium
The ability to keep or regain your body balance or stay upright when in an unstable position. |
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| Read dials on the dashboard of a car | Read the fine print of a legal document | Detect minor defects in a diamond |
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Near Vision
The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer). |
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| Read a roadside billboard | Focus a slide projector | Detect differences in ships on the horizon |
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Hearing Sensitivity
The ability to detect or tell the differences between sounds that vary in pitch and loudness. |
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| Listen to a lecture while people nearby are talking | Listen for your flight announcement at a busy airport | Listen to instructions from a coworker in a noisy saw mill |
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Category Flexibility
The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways. |
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| Sort nails in a toolbox on the basis of length | Classify flowers according to size, color, and smell | Classify man-made fibers in terms of their strength, cost, flexibility, melting points, etc. |
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Information Ordering
The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations). |
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| Put things in numerical order | Follow the correct steps to make change | Assemble a nuclear warhead |
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Inductive Reasoning
The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events). |
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| Decide what to wear based on the weather report | Determine the prime suspect based on crime scene evidence | Diagnose a disease using results of many different lab tests |
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