PSY BEH 113D Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Baking Powder, Psych, Fluid And Crystallized Intelligence
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Age alone not sufficient to cause higher accident rates but there are effects of changes in vision and mobility as well as influences of prescription medications. Highest fatalities are actually in the 35-54 age group. Most crashes occur at left-turn intersections (in u. s. ), also difficulties in merging and yielding. Effects of aging countered by ability to self-regulate. Increased experience can compensate for loss of speed. Less likely to drink and drive and to drive while distracted. Have fewer fatal & non-fatal accidents take more training courses identify elaborate problems. 3, 14, 1, 5, 9, 2, 6. General intelligence or g-factor (spearman, 1904) the ability to infer and apply relationships on the basis of experience. Crystallized intelligence (gc): breadth of knowledge; dependent on education and experience. Fluid intelligence (gf): abilities that make you a flexible and adaptive thinker. Rises or shows stability into the 70s. Declines during adulthood but individual differences remain fairly uniform over time.