CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD

MEASUREMENT OF INTELLIGENCE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Marie has just celebrated her ninety-second birthday. She is physically healthy and walks two miles each day. She lives on her own and still drives short distances, but she is starting to forget where she leaves her glasses and cannot figure out how to work her new security system. Based on this information only, which of the following may be declining in Marie?
A
Fluid intelligence
B
Crystallized intelligence
C
Linguistic intelligence
D
Interpersonal intelligence
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Geoff is able to easily remember a long list of instructions after hearing them only once and also scores higher than average on intelligence tests. This example is most consistent with the theory that executive functioning provides the basis for general intelligence.

Detailed explanation-2: -Hippocampus damage can particularly affect spatial memory, or the ability to remember directions, locations, and orientations. Because the hippocampus plays such an important role in the formation of new memories, damage to this part of the brain can have a serious long-term impact on certain types of memory.

Detailed explanation-3: -IQ was originally computed by taking the ratio of mental age to chronological (physical) age and multiplying by 100. Thus, if a 10-year-old child had a mental age of 12 (that is, performed on the test at the level of an average 12-year-old), the child was assigned an IQ of 12/10 × 100, or 120.

Detailed explanation-4: -Intelligence quotient (IQ) refers to mental age (MA) expressed as a ratio of chronological age (CA) multiplied by 100.

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