#9 HUMDEV - Cognitive Development of the Adult

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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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