Thinking And Intelligence Flashcards
What is fluid intelligence?
Information processing capabilities, reasoning, and memory
How is fluid intelligence during infancy and early ages?
In infancy fluid intelligence is very low.
Describe fluid intelligence as you age?
It improves as you get older. It then plateus around your 40s. Starts to fall off in your 70s.
What is crystallized intelligence?
Information, skills, strategies people learn through experience.
Does crystallized information fluctuate with age?
No, it doesn’t get worse, it can only get better.
What are Gardner’s 8 multiple intelligences?
Logical-mathematical
Linguistic
Musical
Spatial
Bodily kinesthetic
Interpersonal
Intrapersonal
Naturalist
Someone who’s most intelligent in logical-mathematical would best suit which profession?
Engineering because you have to think logically and have good reasoning
What is linguistic and what profession?
Language and writers
What is spatial and what jobs?
Ability to understand how things are laid out
Interior decorator, construction engineers.
What is bodily kinesthetic and what are ppl w/ these abilities good at?
Processing and getting body & mind on same page
Gifted athletes
What does the “inter” in interpersonal mean?
Between people
What is interpersonal intelligence and what jobs?
Being able to read people
Therapists and leaders
What does “intra” in intrapersonal mean?
Within
What does intrapersonal mean and what are traits?
Knowledge of stuff
Usually understands better
Are self aware
What is a naturalist?
Someone who is good with nature
