Intellectual Changes during Maturity and Old Age.

This article discusses on the intellectual changes during maturity and preparation in terms of the educational need to understand the psychology of the adult. the increasing percentage of older individuals in the United States and the augmented interest in the education of the adult in and out of school are accepted facts. This review will attempt to consolidate the information about intellectual changes from 1936 through 1941. A critical review of the area of adult intelligence up to 1936 has been made, Miles also critically appraised the psychological aspects of the aging process, indicating changes in usual interpretation. Lawton surveyed the literature on mental abilities at senescence. Several studies showing the relationship between childhood or adolescent in intelligence and subsequent adult status have been reported. The most significant generalization emerging from the literature on intellectual change is the differential decline of vocabulary, information, and verbal tests as compared with performance tests. Shakow and Goldman showed the increment of vocabulary scores from age fifty and beyond in groups differentiated by amount of schooling.