PSYCH 3AG3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Cognitive Miser, Mental Rotation, Longitudinal Study

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 3AG3
• Professor: Walter Peace

Document Summary

Very controversial: emotional intelligence peaks as we enter our 60s. So implying that emotional intelligence get better and better as we age. So we can get better at these skills. Fluency (esp number) peak earlier, decline starts~50: fluency measured in verbal fluency. 1min generate as many animals that begin with letter a. Do that for 1 min and then see how many words you came up with. Strong up to age 50 as well: creativity builds off this fluency. Those who finished formal can go onto new included stage post-formal. We start to see diff ways in which adolescents and adults approach problems especially when those problems involve people every person we have to be very customized that have ambiguity and contradiction. They start to take into account emotions --singular rules don"t apply to. So we have people like judges make well informed judgments.