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The broad set of mental abilities that reflects cultural values and which increases steadily into adulthood |
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Knowledge that is called upon to maximize performance when individuals have difficulty remembering |
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A concept that helps to account for the apparent decrements in cognitive abilities observed in cross-sectional studies |
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The explanation of the age-related slowing of cognitive processing that uses photocopying as a metaphor |
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An extensive, highly-organized and integrated knowledge base that support high levels of performance |
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One explanation of the age-related slowing of cognitive processes in which new, but less efficient, synaptic connections are formed |
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The kind of knowledge used when solving a math problem |
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The cognitive ability that becomes less spontaneous and intensely emotional, but more deliberately thoughtful in middle age |
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The idea that intelligent people adapt their information-processing skills to fit with their personal desires and the demands of their environment |
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The broad set of mental abilities that depends on basic information-processing skills and which begins to decline in the late twenties or early thirties |
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A skill that involves sizing up real-world situations and analyzing how best to achieve goals that have a high degree of uncertainty |
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An individual’s knowledge of historical events would be an example of this. |
