{"id":70552,"date":"2025-11-14T08:41:43","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T08:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/the-concept-of-mismatch-of-ability-and-achievement\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T08:41:43","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T08:41:43","slug":"the-concept-of-mismatch-of-ability-and-achievement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/the-concept-of-mismatch-of-ability-and-achievement\/","title":{"rendered":"The Concept of Mismatch of Ability and Achievement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A concept used in psychology and neuropsychology to describe a situation where a person&#8217;s intellectual or cognitive abilities significantly exceed their actual achievements in a particular field, such as academics or professional activities. The concept is often used to diagnose learning difficulties, where the patient&#8217;s or student&#8217;s intelligence is high, but their academic achievements or behaviors do not match this level, which may indicate the presence of hidden difficulties or disorders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A concept used in psychology and neuropsychology to describe a situation where a person&#8217;s intellectual or cognitive abilities significantly exceed their actual achievements in a particular field, such as academics or professional activities. The concept is often used to diagnose learning difficulties, where the patient&#8217;s or student&#8217;s intelligence is high, but their academic achievements or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-key-psychological-concepts-in-clinical-neuropsychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}