1. Types of Intelligence (Cattell,1963)
Fluid Intelligence
Information processing abilities such as short-term memory, ability to discern relations between visual stimuli and speed of synthesizing new information.
Biologically based and can be developed
Crystallized Intelligence
Accumulation of a person's culturally based knowledge, language, and understanding of social conventions. 1 1

2. Perceptual speed declines in middle adulthood
Information Processing in Middle Adulthood Speed, Attention, and Memory
Perceptual speed declines in middle adulthood
Decline in ability to focus attention
Disregard the irrelevant information
Decline in ability for divided attention
Not a large decline in memory tasks
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3. Difference between longitudinal and cross sectional data (page 519)
Information Processing in Middle Adulthood Seattle Longitudinal Study (2005)
Difference between longitudinal and cross sectional data (page 519)
Inductive reasoning and spatial orientation stay high in longitudinal research.
Why?
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4. Higher educational level. Health care
Information Processing in Middle Adulthood Seattle Longitudinal Study (2005)
Higher educational level.
Health care
Flynn effect (steep rise in IQ average over the 20 century.
Some dropped out because of illness.
Practice effects.
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5. Brain rule #2 : 'Survival' Medina (2008)
Assumptions:
1. 'The brain appears to be designed to solve problems related to surviving in an unstable environment'.
2. 'The brain is a biological tissue; it follows the rules of biology: natural selection.'
3. Human's brains developed: Dual Representation (DeLoache) and Symbolic reasoning (3 years old).
INTRO 5 5

6. Brain rule #2 'Survival' Medina (2008)
Variable Selection Theory (Potts):
Interactions between two parts of the brain:
1. Data base to store knowledge
2. Ability to improvise off of that database 6 6

7. CRITICAL THINKING Frontal cortex
Responsible for the brain’s executive control function, which is associated with the prefrontal cortex.
Prefrontal cortex
The Commander-in-Chief of your brain. It controls your ability to plan, take action, problem solve and (hopefully) learn from and correct your mistakes. It’s what enables you to evaluate situations, formulate strategy and achieve detailed objectives. 7 7

8. Adult Brain (Medina, 2005)
We lose synaptic connections with age (30,000 a day)
Adult brain continues to create neurons within the regions normally involved in learning which show same plasticity as those in newborns. 8 8

9. Brain rules #12 'We are powerful and natural learners…'
-Babies are the model for how we learn
-Specific parts of the brain allow this scientific approach
Right frontal cortex looks for errors in hypothesis
-Mirror neurons allow us to recognize and imitate behavior
-Some parts of our adult brain stay as malleable as a baby's, so we can create neurons and learn new things throughout our lives.
Rule 12 Powerful learners 9 9

10. Critical Thinking THE CORPORATION
How logical or adaptable (survival) is a social system based on corporate power?
If not, what would be the logical alternative in terms of long terms social and
Psychological development ? 10 10