Essay On Intelligence And Intelligence

Do Intelligence and Creativity Decline with Age?

This is a topic dear to my own heart. From a personal perspective, I never expected my intelligence and creativity to be stronger now that it was in my younger years. Don’t get me wrong, I was pretty good back then too but now it’s completely different, and I also know that I am not the norm. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if that could be the norm? This is not an essay about my personal feelings, because as I’ve come to realize during this college journey, that there is so much more. Albert Einstein was 26-years old, according to our textbook, when he said that “a person who has not made his great contribution to science before the age of 30 will never do so.” Is that true? Regardless to

What I found very interesting, and did not know before, was found in the writings of this controversy and that was the different types of intelligence. Fluid intelligence is defined as intelligence that one would apply to learning new tasks and the ability to come up with solutions to unforeseen problems. Crystallized intelligence reflects accumulated past experiences as well as socialized learning. Fluid intelligence focuses on creating, while crystallized intelligence reflects the wisdom received from accumulated experiences over a person’s lifetime. While there are many forms of intelligence testing, such as the IQ Test, creativity can’t be measured. Researchers have always questions what is actually measured with these intelligence tests. They have realized the complex relationship between intelligence and age. Studies show that while it may take a 70-year-old longer to remember something than it would a 20-year-old, when hypothetical issues are posed it is the 70-year-old who excels. When it comes to wisdom, which was previously