Compare fluid intelligence and crystallized intelligence.

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- Fluid intelligence reflects information processing capabilities, reasoning, and memory.
- Tasks such as arranging a series of letters according to some rule or memorizing a series of numbers are examples.
- Fluid intelligence declines with age.
- Crystallized intelligence is the information, skills, and strategies that people have accumulated through experience and that they can apply to solve problems.
- Examples of crystallized intelligence are someone solving a crossword puzzle or trying to identify the murderer in a mystery story.
- Crystallized intelligence holds steady with age and can actually improve over time.

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