PSY312H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Amyloid, Basal Ganglia, Prospective Memory
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Fluid intelligence: depends in basic information-processing skills, it involves detecting relationships among stimuli, analytical speed and working memory. Crystallized intelligence: skills that depend on accumulated knowledge, experience, good judgement, mastery of social conventions, and this type of intelligence is really valued by person"s culture. Individual and group factors in high intelligence scores: lifestyle: high education, complex job or leisure, lasting marriage and high ses, personal: exible personality, health, gender, cohort, perceptual speed. Cognitive-affective complexity grows across adulthood from 20s until late 50s and then begin to decline - adult emotional intelligence. Expertise: acquisition of extensive knowledge in a eld, it takes many years, and affects information processing affect what you pay attention to, what you recall. Effects on creativity: move to problem nding, 10-year rule, creativity usually rises in early adulthood, and it requires multiple qualities, creativity means thinking about how things can come together or diverge in a unique ways. The college experience: formative, in uential developmental testing ground.
