Health Sciences 2711A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Fluid And Crystallized Intelligence, Nun Study, Inductive Reasoning
5 Nov 2016
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Snowdon : healthy aging & dementia : the nun study. Chapter 15 : physical & cognitive development in middle adulthood 412-421. Responsible for the difference in abilities between different generations, each new generation experiences better health and education then the one previous to it. On intelligence tests encompasses: vocabulary, general information, verbal comprehension, logical reasoning items. Increases through early adulthood ( even when correcting for cohort effects) ( duh, adults are constantly adding to skills at work and home) Heavily dependent on basic information processing skills, ability to detect relationships among: visual stimuli, speed of analyzing information, capacity of working memory. Influenced less by culture & more by individual learning ( unique to individual: although, combines with crystallized learning for : problem solving & effective reasoning. On intelligence tests : spatial visualization. Which boxes on the right can be made from the pattern on the left: digit span. Repeat digits in same/ different order: letter number (alpha numeric) sequencing.
