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Chapter 7

Chapter 7. Language, Problem Solving, and Intelligence. Language. Cognitive Aspects Hearing & Speech deficits Retrieval & WM deficits Compensating Factors: Social Aspects Reminiscing Elderspeak. everyday problem solving: …characteristics of problem solving. Assess current situation

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Chapter 7

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  1. Chapter 7 Language, Problem Solving, and Intelligence

  2. Language • Cognitive Aspects • Hearing & Speech deficits • Retrieval & WM deficits • Compensating Factors: • Social Aspects • Reminiscing • Elderspeak

  3. everyday problem solving:…characteristics of problem solving • Assess current situation • Decide what is desired end-state • Transform current to desired state

  4. everyday problem solving:…characteristics of problem solving in adulthood Negative changes Positive changes • speed of processing • Working memory • More top-down mistakes • experience • efficient storage • Finding relevant information

  5. problem-finding and post-formal operations…Piagetian stages Post-formal operational??? Formal operational Concrete operational Preoperational Sensorimotor

  6. Intelligence • G = general intelligence • Gc = Crystallized Intelligence • Gf = Fluid Intelligence

  7. theoretical perspectives on adult intelligence… alternative views of intelligence • Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences • Emotional intelligence • Sternberg’s Triarchic theory • Sternberg’s theory of successful intelligence

  8. empirical evidence on adult intelligence… individual differences in PMA patterns • Health status • Sensory abilities • Frontal lobe functioning • Gender • Life complexity • Personality flexibility vs. rigidity • Intellectual self-efficacy

  9. the psychology of wisdom… background concepts • Plasticity and reserve capacity • Testing the limits • Selective optimization with compensation • Pragmatics vs. Mechanics

  10. the psychology of wisdom… Baltes model

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