The display of (age-) adequate abilities or skills for a particular task or situation. While this definition applies to individuals, the concept of competence can be extended to the group level. Like intelligence, it covers a number of different areas such as emotional competence, perceived competence, physical competence and social competence.
See Ability, Developmental readiness, Emotional competence, Intelligence, Mastery, Play tutoring, Self-competence, Sensitive period, Skill (general), Self-perception