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🎯 Main Points

Wisdom Continued

PSY409 - Positive Psychology

🔑 Key Definitions

Crystallized Intelligence: Time-bound accumulated knowledge 📚
Wisdom: Timeless understanding that endures across centuries ⏳✨
Dialectical Operations: Post-formal cognitive operations (beyond Piaget) 🧠

👤 Important Figures

  • Clayton (1982) - Distinguished wisdom from crystallized intelligence 📖
  • Riegel (1973) - Extended Piaget to dialectical operations 🧠
  • Monika Ardelt - Wisdom and life satisfaction research 😊

🧠 Key Terms

  • Sternberg's Precursors - Knowledge, judicial style, personality, motivation, context
  • Self-Assessed Wisdom Scale (SAWS) - Webster (2003)
  • VIA Classification - Measures wisdom as one of 24 strengths

📊 SAWS Dimensions (Webster)

  • Experience 📅
  • Emotion ❤️
  • Reminiscence 💭
  • Openness 🔓
  • Humor 😂

💡 Exam Tips

  • Age 15-25 = major time for acquiring wisdom 🌱
  • Age 25-75 = NO age differences in wisdom levels ➡️
  • Wise people have GREATER life satisfaction 😊