Exam 21: Seciton 4: Adulthood: Cognitive Development

Major stresses can negatively impact health, but minor daily hassles do not.

Sternberg stated that there are three kinds of intelligence: academic, creative, and practical.

The superior strategies of the expert permit selective optimization with compensation.

Spearman believed that general intelligence cannot be measured directly but can be inferred from various abilities.

Crystallized intelligence remains steady across adulthood.

If they use problem-focused coping styles, people try to attack the stress directly.

Over the years of adulthood, a more positive attitude toward life develops, which makes it easier to reinterpret stresses so that they do not fester.

Individuals high in analytic intelligence as able to better handle the tasks of adulthood.

Women are more apt to use an emotion-focused coping style for stress than men.

Schaie found in the Seattle Longitudinal Study that by age 60 everyone declined in at least one of the basic abilities, but not until age 88 are declines in all five skills apparent in everyone.

Expert thinking is intuitive, automatic, strategic, and flexible.

Intellectually demanding tasks, paid or not, tend to keep the mind working after retirement.

Experts rely more on formal procedures and rules rather than past experiences and immediate contexts when thinking.

It is possible to measure g directly.

Curiosity, learning something for the joy of it, and the thrill at discovering something new are marks of fluid intelligence.

It is difficult to determine who is a smart person, but easy to determine which nation is smartest.