Which term describes accumulated knowledge and verbal skills gained through experience that tends to increase with age?

• A. Crystallized Intelligence (Gc)
• B. Priming
• C. Gambler's Fallacy
• D. Functional Fixedness

Answer: (A)

Crystallized intelligence is the accumulated knowledge and verbal skills gained through experience, education, and culture. As people age, they keep building this store of knowledge—vocabulary, general information, and language-based understanding—so it tends to increase over time. In contrast to abilities used for solving novel problems, crystallized intelligence relies on what you already know and can express, which is why older individuals often show strength in vocabulary and factual knowledge. The other terms describe different cognitive phenomena—priming is about memory influenced by prior exposure, the gambler’s fallacy is a mistaken belief about randomness, and functional fixedness is a bias that limits seeing new uses for objects—so they don’t capture the idea of knowledge accumulated with experience.