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Chapter 9

Chapter 9: Thinking

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Brain “boot camp” makes you smarter.

Is getting more exercise among your New Year’s resolutions? What about some training for your brain? Researchers have put people through a series of brain exercises—a brain boot camp—and found that, just like exercise for your body, exercise for your brain pays off.

Interviewees: Susanne Jaeggi and Martin Buschkuehl, University of Michigan

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The tasks used by the researcher in this study involved fast-changing stimuli, learning to make decisions where the optimal strategy would change under different conditions, and integrating visual and auditory information. Look at Raymond Cattell’s distinction between fluid intelligence and crystallized intelligence. Which of these types of intelligence is more likely to be trained in this task?
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The researchers in this study gave people working memory tasks and this led to an improvement in intelligence. If your textbook is correct in the section “Intelligence Is Associated with Cognitive Performance,” what other cognitive process may be the key to understanding how training working memory might lead to improvements in intelligence?

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