ability
the quality of being able to perform; a quality that permits or facilitates achievement or accomplishment
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Purpose and description
Let an agent explain ability, relay psychological, educational and disability perspectives from dictionary, psychology and disability rights sources with positions attributed, describe the named aliases and note they are related qualities, and distinguish ability from skill, aptitude, talent, capacity in law and ableist framing.
In the WordNet sense, the quality of being able to perform, a quality that permits or facilitates achievement or accomplishment, including physical, cognitive and social abilities, with related qualities the registry aliases name such as adaptability, flexibility or flexibleness and pliability or pliancy, meaning the capacity to change or bend, and wiggle room, an informal term for latitude to manoeuvre; psychology distinguishes ability from skill, aptitude and achievement, and disability rights frameworks describe how barriers, not only impairments, limit what people can do.
What it is for: Naming capacity to perform.
It can be explain the concept; relay psychological and educational perspectives; describe named aliases; relay disability rights framing.
Distinguishing features
Capacity to act
Multiple domains
Measurable in part
Context-dependent
What it looks like
Not a physical object; inferred from performance.
Physical character
WordNet hypernym: quality note
UN CRPD: 2006 year - Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Carroll three-stratum theory: 1993 year - cognitive abilities
How it is recognised
Quality of being able to perform
Adaptability, flexibility, flexibleness, wiggle room, pliability, pliancy
Skills are learned proficiencies; aptitude is potential; talent is natural gift; legal capacity concerns decisions; ableism devalues disabled people
Related models
is a kind of - in WordNet terms
is related to -
is contrasted with -
is related to -
In practice
Families and kinds
cognitive abilities
physical abilities
social and emotional abilities
adaptability and flexibility
latitude or wiggle room
Identifiers
WordNet oewn-04731092-n hypernym of ability
Standards and regulation
UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Anti-discrimination laws
Psychological test standards
Failure modes and hazards
Ableist framing
Overinterpreting ability tests
Treating related qualities as synonyms
Analytical facets
- substance
- abstract
- origin
- conceptual
- agency
- inert
- mobility
- not-applicable
- scale
- not-applicable
- affordances
- observable
Also called
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Where this came from
oewn:2024 · CC BY 4.0
Drafted structure
Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.
Understand What ability is.
Attribution.
Definition
Definition.
Definition
Definition.
- What is ability, and how does it differ from skill, aptitude, talent, legal capacity and ableist framing? definition
- Is the question about psychology, education, work, disability rights or language? boundary
Aliases
Named aliases.
Aliases
Aliases.
- What do adaptability, flexibility, pliability and wiggle room mean, and how do they relate to ability? definition
- Which entry fits the specific quality? action
Psychology Psychology.
Attribution.
Cognitive abilities
Cognitive abilities.
Cognitive abilities
Cognitive abilities.
- How do models such as Cattell-Horn-Carroll describe cognitive abilities? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Testing
Ability testing.
Testing
Testing.
- What are the uses and limits of ability tests, with debates attributed? provenance
- Which sources are cited? provenance
Disability Disability perspectives.
Regulation.
Social model
Social model.
Social model
Social model.
- How does the social model of disability reframe ability? provenance
- Which entry fits social model of disability? action
Language
Respectful language.
Language
Language.
- What language do disability organisations recommend, with preferences attributed? provenance
- Is the presentation respectful? boundary
Context Work and learning.
Context.
Growth mindset
Beliefs about ability.
Growth mindset
Growth mindset.
- What does research say about mindset and beliefs about ability, with findings and replication debates attributed? provenance
- Which entry fits mindset? action
Adaptability
Adaptability at work.
Adaptability
Adaptability.
- How is adaptability studied in workplaces? provenance
- Which entry fits adaptive performance? action
What the second pass must settle
- Should adaptability and flexibility be moved to their own entries?
- Should wiggle room be marked as an idiom?
- How should psychology sources be linked?