Teens get smarter as their minds get quicker
Yahoo India:
Washington, Sept 28 (ANI): A group of psychologists at University of Texas at San Antonio has found that adolescents become smarter because they become mentally quicker.
This is the first time psychologists have been able to confirm this important connection.
To find the relationship between these two phenomena, the UTSA psychologists analysed the results of 12 diverse intelligence and mental speed tests administered to 6,969 adolescents (ages 13 to 17) in the 1997 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth.
Intelligence was measured by performance on cognitive tests of diverse abilities, such as vocabulary knowledge, math facts, and mechanical comprehension.
Mental speed showed up in timed tests of computing and coding-matching digits and words and other arithmetic tasks.
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