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Contextual Intelligence : Contextual you perceive the relations among various or practical intelligence involves the abilityoncepts and integrate them into a to deal with environmental demands meaningful pattern for comprehension. For encountered on a daily basis. It may be example, in Raven’s Progressive Matrices called ‘street smartness’ or ‘business sense’.RPM) Test, a design is presented from Persons high on this aspect easily adapt to which a part has been removed. You are their present environment or select a more required to choose one of the six options favourable environment than the existing that best completes the design. one, or modify the environment to fit their Simultaneous processing helps you in needs. Therefore, they turn out to be grasping the meaning and relationship between the given abstract figures. successful in life. Sternberg’s triarchic theory of Successive processing takes place when intelligence represents the information- you remember all the information serially processing approach to understand so that the recall of one leads to the recall intelligence. of another. Learning of digits, alphabets, multiplication tables, etc. are examples of Planning, Attention-arousal, and successive processing. Simultaneous-successive (PASS) Model Planning : This is an essential feature of Intelligence of intelligence. After the information is attended to and processed, planning is This model has been developed by J.P. activated. It allows us to think of the Das, Jack Naglieri, and Kirby (1994). possible courses of action, implement them According to this model, intellectual activity involves the interdependent to reach a target, and evaluate their effectiveness. If a plan does not work, it is functioning of three neurological systems, modified to suit the requirements of the called the functional units of brain. These task or situation. For example, to take the units are responsible for arousal/attention, test scheduled by your teacher, you would coding or processing, and planning respectively. have to set goals, plan a time schedule of study, get clarifications in case of problems Arousal/Attention : State of arousal is and if you are not able to tackle the basic to any behaviour as it helps us in chapters assigned for the test, you may attending to stimuli. Arousal and attention have to think of other ways (e.g., give more enable a person to process information. An time, study with a friend, etc.) to meet your optimal level of arousal focuses our goals. attention to the relevant aspects of a These PASS processes operate on a problem. Too much or too little arousal knowledge base developed either formally would interfere with attention. For (by reading, writing, and experimenting) or instance, when you are told by your informally from the environment. These teacher about a test which s/he plans to processes are interactive and dynamic in hold, it would arouse you to attend to the nature; yet each has its own distinctive specific chapters. Arousal forces you to functions. Das and Naglieri have also focus your attention on reading, learning developed a battery of tests, known as the and revising the contents of the chapters. Cognitive Assessment System (CAS). It Simultaneous and Successive consists of verbal as well as non-verbal Processing : You can integrate the tasks that measure basic cognitive information into your knowledge system functions presumed to be independent of either simultaneously or successively. schooling. The battery of tests is meant for Simultaneous processing takes place when individuals between 5 and 18 years of age. 9 Chapter 1 • Variations in Psychological Attributes Reprint 2026-27