Fluid and Crystallized Intelligence

There are arguably two types of intelligence. Fluid intelligence is your ability to reason quickly. It relies on the ability to hold attention and benefits from a strong working memory. Crystallized intelligence is your ability to apply knowledge from prior learning that was stored in your long term memory. To illustrate how the two work together, we created a short fairytale – a story of a young man, who wants to save a princess that was captured by an evil witch.

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COLLABORATORS
Script: Cameron Tan
Editor: Jonas Koblin
Fact checking: Ludo Saint Amour di Chanaz
Artist: Pascal Gaggelli
Voice: Mithril
Coloring: Nalin
Editing: Peera Lertsukittipongsa
Production: Selina Bador
Sound Design: Miguel Ojeda

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Scientists have long known that our ability to think quickly, also known as fluid intelligence, peaks around age 20 and then begins a slow decline. However, more recent findings, including a new study from neuroscientists at MIT suggest that the real picture is much more complex.

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Fluid and crystallized intelligence

Research article on Improving fluid intelligence with training on working memory

Development of the two over our age

Perera, A. (2020) Fluid vs Crystallized Intelligence. Simply Psychology.

Brain structure is important for both kind of intelligence and changes during the teens


Nilokaus Tetens

CLASSROOM EXERCISE

CHAPTER
00:00 Introduction
00:04 Fluid intelligence
00:22 Crystallized intelligence
00:45 Story of collaboration
01:34 Fluid and Crystallized cooperation
02:17 Intelligence development stage
02:47 What do you think?
03:01 Patrons credits
03:10 Ending

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[tobymnewton]

A problem with the idea of "intelligence" is that we tend to assume its necessarily positive quality. The more "intelligence" you have, the better. That's not necessarily the case. A better guide is to think of "fluid" intelligence as processing speed and "crystallised" intelligence as sedimented experience. The overall impact of these "two" intelligences is always their sum, and to suggest otherwise is an error. For example, in your example, Arthur was not reckoning ex nihilo when he stood on the pressure pad, he was using his experience poetically or metaphorically, i.e. by processing analogues and similarities, to come up with a novel solution. He may not have stood on a pressure pad previously, but he had garnered and stored experience that was tangentially relevant. However, faster processing speed is of little, no or even negative value if the sedimented knowledge you are working with is faulty, skewed, outmoded, or otherwise not fit for purpose. That is why some very "smart" people do very stupid things. Generally speaking, we are living in a culture in which our "fluid" intelligence (i.e. our processing speed) is massively accelerated by digital/computing technologies, but where our shared "crystallised" intelligence (i.e. our stock of received wisdom and accepted ideas) is inept and deathly. We're super-intelligent and super-self-destructive. There's no paradox, it's just that "intelligence", in and of itself, is of no benefit. To be advantageous, it must be allied to wisdom.

[TheWyrdSmythe]

It sounds like just the difference between using knowledge versus using logic. Which is pretty fuzzy. Logic depends on knowledge, and applying knowledge requires logic. They’re two sides of one coin.

[DeepeyeLV]

Love your videos, concise, clear and pleasant to watch :)

[williamfleming]

This video starts with "There are arguably two types of intelligence." This is a statement intended to shut down any thought or questioning about how many types of intelligence there are. That there are two types of intelligence has not been proven. There could be more than two types of intelligence, or a range of intelligence based on more than two factors.

[dorganator]

Intelligence is often a predicator of general career success..but also comes with the potential trappings of intellectual narcissism and/or life dissatisfaction with perceived under utilisation of personal potential.

[amirabile]

Love the story at the end, well explained, thanks :)

[ramspace]

Some human beings have such fluid intelligence that they succeed at finding the answer to how to remove suffering permanently. Isn't that the ultimate purpose of living?

[grapeshott]

I still want some 'modern' criticisms to these theories which were brought in 1960s and 70s, to be explained briefly in the videos.

[dewdew]

I see resemblance to Carl Jung's study, the cognitive functions, it's like Si (crystallized) and Ni (Fluid).

[snippetsnackbooks-es]

Awesome explanation. Keep the good work :)

[canadiannuclearman]

I JUST TURNED 70 I AGREE IM ALWAYS LEARNING

[djdigital]

I’m an Electrical Engineering Technician.
I am responsible for manufacturing process and fix the design flaws in the designed device. I might be both.
Intelligence to me is the ability to build what you think.

[Fixion]

Everybody is running behind intelligence but I think that intelligence will only come when you study something when you research something when you read something regret guilt compassion all these things are experienced and this will give you intelligence in the present

[Chaezaa]

I had to take a 3-day test to give them an idea about my cognitive abilities. Based on the results my fluid intelligence is getting close to "gifted". Well, here i am, a 33 year old unemployed loner without a school degree. LOL

[duvan-solis]

Says there are two types of intelligence"
The research about the seven types of intelligence: are you sure about that?

[Ridwaanito]

Her: can you think of a time you ysed your fluid and crystallized intelligence?
Me: I'm using it right now

[Ravenite]

It's a good thing Indiana Jones had a solid fluid intelligence in Raiders of the Lost Ark, or it would've been a REALLY short film!😉

[tokra]

i really hope i can support you guys by making indonesia subtitle, because i wanted to teach but am stupid.

[muskynitric]

what's the difference between wisdom and crystallized intelligence?