Fluid and crystallized intelligence

Secondhand Lions begins with a young boy named Walter and his mother Mae driving to a farm in Texas, where Walter will live with his great uncles, Hub and Garth. His mother tells him that his uncles have been missing for 40 years, but have just returned to Texas as millionaires. Mae tells Walter he must form a relationship with his great-uncles before they die, in hopes they will leave their fortune to him. When they arrive to the farm, Hub and Garth are reluctant to let Walter stay, but…

begins to start getting smaller. During this stage, there are also a lot of declines physically. The immune system and sensory systems start to decline, along with cognitive declines in fluid intelligence. Adults can help prevent some of these declines by staying healthy and advancing their crystallized intelligence (verbal ability and factual knowledge). Elderly people actually remember their more recent experiences better than their…

Devyn’s cognitive abilities were assessed with the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC-V). The areas of cognitive processing ability measured include crystallized intelligence, short-term memory, visual-spatial processing, reasoning ability, and processing speed. The subtests measured different cognitive processing abilities and when combined form five index scores: Verbal Comprehension, Visual-Spatial, Fluid Reasoning, Working Memory and Processing Speed, which makes up the…

Ryan’s cognitive abilities were assessed through the use of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC-V). The areas of cognitive processing ability measured include crystallized intelligence, short-term memory, visual-spatial processing, reasoning ability, and processing speed. The subtests measure different cognitive processing abilities, combining to form five index scores: Verbal Comprehension, Visual-Spatial, Fluid Reasoning, Working Memory and Processing Speed which all together…

Introduction Definitions of intelligence vary among scholars, theorists, and laypersons, due to its multidimensionality. However, intelligence typically involves an individual’s ability to learn from experience and adapt to the environment in which they live. I believe that the construct of intelligence should encompass an individual’s ability to effectively communicate in both written and verbal form, to think logically, and to express creativity. Two intelligence tests in which I recently…

Middle Adulthood is the time from ages forty to sixty-four, when individuals know that aging is unavoidable and new challenges are awaiting them (Belsky, 2013, 363). Many older adults are facing life milestones such as marriage, parenting, advancing in their careers, grand-parenting, and eventually retiring (Belsky, 2013, 366). As they age they are also experiencing physical, cognitive, and psychosocial changes that they have never had to deal with before. In order to understand what these…

Eric’s cognitive abilities were assessed through the use of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC-V). The areas of cognitive processing ability measured include crystallized intelligence, short-term memory, visual-spatial processing, reasoning ability, and processing speed. The subtests measure different cognitive processing abilities, combining to form five index scores: Verbal Comprehension, Visual-Spatial, Fluid Reasoning, Working Memory and Processing Speed which all together…

will be ready for use from mid-2016, (Reynolds & Kamphaus, n.d). The RIAS-2 is an individual administered psychometric instrument designed to evaluate cognitive ability: general intelligence (g), crystallized intelligence (Gc) and fluid reasoning (Gf). Broadly, the original RIAS has six subtests that measure intelligence: guess what, verbal reasoning, odd-item out, what’s missing, verbal memory, and the non-verbal subtest, (Beaujean & McGlaughlin, 2014). The RIAS-2 has an additional two new…

Critically evaluate the extent to which personality and intelligence are independent individual differences constructs. Intelligence and personality have both been great reasons for research in the individual differences studies of psychology. They form a very big part of psychological and personal differences and variations between individuals, are an important part of our everyday life and are complicated issues that are hard to examine and define. Numerous theories, opinions and…

Within the last fifty years, the average intelligence of humans has greatly increased. This could be due to a variety of factors, such as the increase of technology, the amount of information people are able to access today, and the Flynn effect—the substantial and long-sustained increase in both fluid and crystallized intelligence test scores measured in many parts of the world from roughly 1930 to the present day. When it comes college…