{"id":7550,"date":"2019-05-22T15:58:05","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/competence_-psychology\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T15:58:05","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:58:05","slug":"competence_-psychology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/competence_-psychology\/","title":{"rendered":"Competence (psychology)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The display of (age-) adequate abilities or skills for a particular task or situation. &nbsp;While this definition applies to individuals, the concept of competence can be extended to the group level. &nbsp;Like intelligence, it covers a number of different areas such as emotional competence, perceived competence, physical competence and social competence.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"ability\">Ability<\/a>, <a href=\"developmental_readiness\">Developmental readiness<\/a>, <a href=\"emotional_competence\">Emotional competence<\/a>, <a href=\"intelligence\">Intelligence<\/a>, <a href=\"mastery\">Mastery<\/a>, <a href=\"play_tutoring\">Play tutoring<\/a>, <a href=\"self-competence\">Self-competence<\/a>, <a href=\"sensitive_period\">Sensitive period<\/a>, <a href=\"skill_-general-\">Skill (general)<\/a>, Self-perception<\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The display of (age-) adequate abilities or skills for a particular task or situation. &nbsp;While this definition applies to individuals, the concept of competence can be extended to the group level. &nbsp;Like intelligence, it covers a number of different areas such as emotional competence, perceived competence, physical competence and social competence. See Ability, Developmental readiness, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/competence_-psychology\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Competence (psychology)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-7550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}