Define the terms crystallized intelligence and fluid intelligence and indicate how they change in middle adulthood.
What will be an ideal response?
Crystallized intelligence: A cluster of knowledge and skills that depends on accumulated information and experience, awareness of social conventions, and good judgment. This type of intelligence tends to increase through middle adulthood.
Fluid intelligence: A person's skills at processing information. This type of intelligence tends to decline through middle adulthood.
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A. halo effect B. primacy effect C. matching effect D. mere-exposure effect
An international campaign against ___ has been waged by critics, citing it as a cruel and inhumane practice that has lifelong physiological effects
female circumcision || female mastectomies || male circumcision || male vasectomies || || ||
In general, people tend to feel somewhat more positively about ________ compared to ________, a finding described as the ________ effect
A) men; women; "men are great" B) women; men; "women are wonderful" C) men; women; "social dominator" D) men; women; "men should be in control" E) women; men; "women actually rule the world"
Dating helps adolescents learn how to ______________.
a. become friends with the most popular people b. preserve the cultural values of one's clique c. establish intimacy with another individual d. avoid disclosing overly personal information