1. Emerging adulthood: If you are an emerging adult, explain what it is like to be in this period of development from your perspective, and how this aligns with what research suggests is common for this age group. For instance, in what ways might you feel

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Home>Business & Finance homework help>Management homework help>1. Emerging adulthood: If you are an emerging adult, explain what it is like to be in this period of development from your perspective, and how this aligns with what research suggests is common for this age group. For instance, in what ways might you feel

Middle Adulthood: Cognitive Development

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Key Objectives

Describe the difference between crystallized and fluid intelligence and their trajectories across adulthood

Explain why fluid intelligence tends to decrease as we age

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Intelligence

Fluid and crystallized

Trajectories differ

Fluid intelligence

Processing speed

Ability to learn new things

Crystallized

What’s in long-term storage?

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Why do these losses occur?

Changes in the brain

Areas involved in processing speed and sustained attention shrink

Accumulated effects of disease (e.g., heart disease)

Lack of practice

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Middle adulthood and the work world

Developed and fine-tuned expertise

Adult learners (“non-traditional” students) tend to do well academically

Benefits to “traditional” students?

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