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Cognitive Development Quiz for Adults

Test your knowledge on the cognitive development of adults through this engaging quiz. Explore various aspects of cognitive abilities, memory, and intelligence as you navigate through 30 thought-provoking questions.

Topics covered include:

Intellectual abilities
Memory types
Effects of aging on cognition
Practical vs. abstract thinking
Fluid and crystallized intelligence

30 Questions8 MinutesCreated by ReflectingMind42

Intellectual abilities of an adult is influenced mainly by educational level

True

False

The appearance of formal operational thinking can be delayed beyond third decade of life

True

False

The capacity to solve practical problem is inversely related to ability to do abstract thinking with age

True

False

Fluid intelligence is independent of acquired knowledge

True

False

There is an inverse relationship between mental health and cognitive ability

True

False

Procedural memory is a kind of long-term memory that is responsible in storing information on experiences

True

False

Older adults approach problems the same way like adolescents

True

False

Learning is a lifelong endeavor and activity

True

False

Individual variations in terms of the level of intelligence and creativity exist with age

True

False

The performance of an adult in every aspect of life does not indicate the amount of learning neither the intelligence level

True

False

Decline in learning ability is observed in adults at fifth decade of life

True

False

Memory training is possible and can further enhance memory of seniors

True

False

Crystallized intelligence refers to one's lifetime intellectual achievement

True

False

Older individuals contribute less to the society

True

False

Advancing age is a barrier in learning process

True

False

Memory for activities to be performed in the future

Prospective Memory

Retrospective Memory

Memory of past events

Prospective Memory

Retrospective Memory

Learning-input phase

Acquisition

Storage

Retrieval

Requires deep processing not by the length of duration information is held

Long term memory

Short term memory

Information being still rehearsed or focused

Long term memory

Short term memory

An example of this change is visual and hearing loss. If stimulus is not detected, cognitive processing cannot occur very well.

Physical change

Physiological change

This change refers to the inability to store information from sensory input stage

Physical change

Physiological change

This refers to the information you consciously work to remember, such as solving a math equation.

Explicit memory

Implicit memory

A type of explicit memory wherein conscious recollection/remembering of information is learned through time

Episodic memory

Semantic memory

Autobiological memory

A type of explicit memory that remembers the meaning of words & concepts not related to time

Episodic memory

Semantic memory

Autobiological memory

This refers to the information you remember unconsciously and effortlessly

Explicit memory

Implicit memory

In implicit memory, this refers to how exposure to stimulus affects future responses

Priming

Emotional conditioning

Procedural

It is the ability of the brain to change and adapt to new information.

Plasticity

Synaptic plasticity

Neuroplasticity

It is the change that occurs at synapses, that allows neurons to communicate.

Plasticity

Synaptic plasticity

Neuroplasticity

It is the ability to reorganize forming neural connections throughout life

Plasticity

Synaptic plasticity

Neuroplasticity

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