Crystallized Increase Example While Playing "Words with Friends" with Her

question 37

Multiple Choice

Crystallized increase example While playing "Words with Friends" with her 72-year-old grandmother,Frieda Lay is shocked to find that she is losing badly because her grandmother just seems to know so many more words.Frieda's grandmother is illustrating the fact that:

• A)older adults are superior to younger adults in inductive reasoning.
• B)later life is associated with much faster response speed.
• C)secondary abilities improve but primary abilities decline in later life.
• D)crystallized intelligence rises throughout adulthood into the 70s.

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Definitions:

Water-Vascular System

A unique hydraulic system used by echinoderms (such as starfish and sea urchins) for locomotion, feeding, and gas exchange.

Echinoderms

A phylum of marine animals known for their radial symmetry and include species such as starfish, sea urchins, and sea cucumbers.

Hermaphrodite

Animal that has both male and female gonads, either simultaneously or at different times in its life cycle.

Parthenogenetic

Relating to a form of reproduction in which an embryo is created without fertilization by a male, occurring in some plants, invertebrates, and rarely vertebrates.