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Crystallized intelligence
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Fluid and crystallized intelligence.
Fluid versus crystallized intelligence
Crystallized intelligence (gc) is the application of learned procedures and knowledge, and depends heavily on experience and acculturation. Horn notes that crystallized ability is a "precipitate out of experience," resulting from the prior application of fluid ability that has been combined with the intelligence of culture. Examples of tasks that measure crystallized intelligence are vocabulary, general information, abstract word analogies, and the mechanics of language.