Gerald is 75 years old and finds that he has some difficulty with speedy decision-making, but he often surprises his grandchildren by relating a storehouse of facts from long-term memory. This ability to retrieve stored facts illustrates

a. crystallized abilities.
b. fluid abilities.
c. scaffolding.
d. intuition.


A

Psychology

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