Ability (disambiguation)

The term ability can refer to different concepts:

• Skills in the cognitive field
  • Abilityability to successfully execute an action or task;
  • Intellectualany skill that has to do with the cognitive abilities of the subject.
  • Competition (learning) or ability to learn a specific matter with a particular objective.
  • Skill as an outstanding aptitude innate or developed for certain activity. This is also known as talent.
  • Emotional skills, ability to know oneself and act accordingly, a concept close to that of emotional intelligence.
• Skills in the professional field
  • Soft skills (also known as soft competitions or the English term soft skills), those related to behaviors, attitudes and values of the worker.
  • Information skills, those needed by the professionals of Information Sciences, Bibliotheconomy and researchers to take advantage of the enormous information available in the information society. They can be regarded as a higher level of informational literacy.
  • Skills of the 21st Century, those identified as necessary to succeed in the work and society of the centuryXXI.
  • Digital skills (also known as digital competencies), all those required to handle information and communication technologies, digital devices and computer programs.
  • Hard skills or technical skills, those related to specific technical or academic knowledge to perform a particular job.
  • Management skills, those necessary for the management of a project, a company, the organization of an activity, etc.
  • Occupational skills (also known as professional skills or labor competencies), those necessary to successfully carry out a certain work activity.
  • Psychoanalytic skills, abilities to psychoanalyse a specialist, whether this psychologist, psychiatrist or similar.
• Social skills
  • Social skills (also called interpersonal skills), which facilitate an individual to interact and communicate with other people.
  • Communication skills (or communicative), a person's ability to receive information, develop and transmit it to other individuals.
  • Skills for lifethose who need a person to successfully face the demands of daily life.
• Skills in the field of games
  • Skill (playing games), each of the capabilities that the characters of the role games have to perform actions in the course of a game session.