Fluid+intelligence

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Aspects of intelligence involving abstract reasoning and mental flexibility, which peak in the early 20's and decline slowly as people age. pp.267 Gen Psych, CH 8, pp.267

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 * 1) Memory test
 * 2) Problem solving
 * 3) Strategy

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=In the News:= [| New study: Fluid intelligence not trainable] A few months ago the New York Times published an article on the training of working memory titled "Can You Make Yourself Smarter?" I suggested that the conclusions of the article might be a little too sunny--I pointed out that reviews of the literature by scientists suggested that having subjects practice working memory tasks (like the n-back task, shown below) led to improvement in the working memory task, but not in fluid intelligence.

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