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As adults age, their intelligence changes. The prefrontal cortex, which is important for decision making and complex thought, develops last in childhood but declines first in old age. Many cognitive abilities slowly fade as adults age, such as memory, processing speed, reasoning, and spatial skills. Cross-sectional studies examine groups of different aged people at one time, while longitudinal studies track the same individuals over many years. Maintaining an active lifestyle through social engagement, education, and mental challenges can help offset some effects of aging on adult intelligence.

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As adults age, their intelligence changes. The prefrontal cortex, which is important for decision making and complex thought, develops last in childhood but declines first in old age. Many cognitive abilities slowly fade as adults age, such as memory, processing speed, reasoning, and spatial skills. Cross-sectional studies examine groups of different aged people at one time, while longitudinal studies track the same individuals over many years. Maintaining an active lifestyle through social engagement, education, and mental challenges can help offset some effects of aging on adult intelligence.

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Adult Intelligence

Adult Intelligence
As one gets older they get wiser
This due to experience throughout ones life
Changes in late adulthood are similar, but
happens in reverse ( to people in the
childhood category
The prefrontal cortex is the last to
develop in childhood and the first to go as
one grows older

Cognitive Problems
Memory loss
Slower thinking
This is due to the lack of fluid
intelligence
Fluid Intelligence= the ability to solve
an unexpected problem and thinking
on your feet
Inductive reasoning

Cognitive Problems (con`t)


Spacial orientation
Perceptual speed
Numeric ability
Verbal memory
Verbal ability
These aspects of intelligence slowly
decline as humans get older

Cognitive problems

Processing speed fades from a person


the fasted
The older a person gets the slower
they get
Older people begin to lose the ability
to encode information
Also retrieving any information that is
encoded is difficult as one ages

Cross-sectional

psychologists study human subjects


of different ages
but at the same time.
For example give an IQ test to a
group of 20 year olds, 30 year olds,
40 year olds and 50 year olds.
Analyze the differences between
these groups.

Longitudinal

study the same people


But the test are continued over time.
So study an individual when they are
20, 30, 40 and 50 years of

Solutions to Cognitive Problems


Social solutions
Having a flexible personality style

Bright spouse

satisfied with one's accomplishments

Solutions to cognitive Problems


(Cont)

learning foreign
languages
Crosswords
Educational board
games
Post secondary
school
Strategy video
games
Constant reading

Solutions to cognitive problems


(con`t)
refraining from smoking, drinking
Eating healthy
Occupation that requires decision
making
This tends to prolong cognitive
functioning

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