APSY2240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Fluid And Crystallized Intelligence, Autobiographical Memory, Episodic Memory

• School: Boston College
• Department: Counseling, Developmental, and Educational Psychology
• Course: APSY2240
• Professor: Julia Whitcavitch- Devoy

Document Summary

The ability to think, reason and deal with your environment. Especially considering how people deal with their environment. Emotional intelligence and social intelligence are also difficult to measure. Flynn effect: the average iq score seem to be increasing steadily over the last century. Socialization and toner variables such as nutrition and access to education may. Iq is not as fixed as we may have thought have played a role in this increase. Fluid intelligence: considers processing; how well you adapt to new situations. Not as dependent on education and content. Tends to decline earlier that crystallized intelligence. If you knew how to drive your whole life and then it became gradually more difficult with time and you no longer can do it. Reaction and the ability to adapt has weakened. Intelligence declines slower than we used to think. Intelligence has a relationship with health and longevity. Aligned with economic success and academic success (resources)