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Patterns and Organizations of Intelligence

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Does intelligence decline in old age? If it does, when does the decline begin? What causes the changes? Do they occur in everyone? In the study of aging, no problem has received greater attention than that of intelligence; yet in spite of the abundance of research data gathered, many questions remain. Two related movements in American psychology have kindled the research. One was the mental test movement which had its origins in the study of growth and development during childhood. The second was the movement of clinical testing which influenced the whole field of psychology. Wechsler’s test was part of the clinical testing movement, and with its advent in 1939, the measurement of adult intelligence became commonplace.

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    Jack Botwinick Ph.D. (Professor of Medical Psychology)

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Botwinick, J. (1967). Patterns and Organizations of Intelligence. In: Cognitive Processes in Maturity and Old Age. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-39890-6_1

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