CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -While fluid intelligence involves our current ability to reason and deal with complex information around us, crystallized intelligence involves learning, knowledge, and skills that are acquired over a lifetime.

Detailed explanation-2: -These verbal tests include comprehension, information, digit span, vocabulary, similarities and arithmetic (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Revised). Most of these verbal tests are widely construed as capable of measuring crystallized intelligence.

Detailed explanation-3: -Crystallized Intelligence: One’s accumulated knowledge and verbal skills; tends to increase with age.

Detailed explanation-4: -Definition. Crystallized intelligence (abbreviated Gc) is reflected in a person’s general knowledge, vocabulary, and reasoning based on acquired information. It is contrasted with fluid intelligence (see Fluid Intelligence) as one of the two factors of general intelligence first proposed by Cattell (1971).

Detailed explanation-5: -The verbal comprehension index measures crystallized intelligence and general knowledge, so children who perform well are frequently thought of as bright and intelligent because they appear to be a storehouse of information.