existential intelligence

a kind of intelligence proposed as a “candidate” intelligence in the multiple-intelligences theory. It is involved in understanding larger fundamental questions of existence and the role and place of humans in the universe. At present, there are no developed measures of existential intelligence.

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Psychology term of the day

November 22nd 2024

cortical–subcortical motor loop

a loop, made up of projections between the motor cortex and structures in the basal ganglia and the thalamus, that monitors and sequences ongoing motor behaviors.