Unit 62- The Dynamics of intelligence

Question 1

What does cohort mean

Answer 1

Same group of people

Question 2

What is crystallized intelligence?

Answer 2

Our accumulated knowledge as reflected in vocabulary and analogies tests that tends to increase with age

Question 3

What is fluid intelligence?

Answer 3

Our ability to reason speedily and abstractly, as when solving novel logic problems, tends to decrease with age

Question 4

What is intellectual disability?

Answer 4

It is indicated by an intelligence score of 70 or below and the person has difficulty adapting to the normal demands of independent living

Question 5

What is Down Syndrome?

Answer 5

A condition of mild to severe intellectual disability and it caused by an extra chromosome 21 in a person’s genetic makeup.

Question 6

The _________ of intelligence scores increases with age

Answer 6

stability

Question 7

Cross sectional studies compare people of what?

Answer 7

compare people of different ages

Question 8

Longitudinal studies retest who?

Answer 8

retest the same cohort over a period of years