Crystallized Intelligence (Gc)

Your crystallized intelligence (Gc) is your skills, memories and knowledge that underpin your competences in everyday life, such as your language ability or general knowledge. If you think of fluid intelligence as being in the foreground of your thinking – under the spotlight – you see crystallized intelligence as the background stage – the scene, your persona and the narrative so far – Gc defines your ‘life space’, your umwelt – and your ability to act intuitively and by habit within it, as though on automatic pilot.

How To Train

For the purpose of everyday training, any kind of skill or knowledge learning will augment your crystallized intelligence, and combining Gf (working memory, attention, and relational reasoning) training with your learning programs will aid in the efficiency of the learning process. Subscribe to the relevant IQ Mindware mailing list for more information on training.

For the purpose of psychometric IQ testing, we suggest train with these tests & exercises when you selectively want to target Gc – for 5 to 15 minutes at a time. You are not expected to complete the tests listed below. Use them selectively for your own training purposes.

Mid-Range Training

• Similar Minds’ Verbal Intelligence Test. <10 minutes. Scoring – Free. Take the test.
• Queendom’s Verbal IQ Test. 60 Questions. Standardized. Scoring – Free. Take the test.

High Range Training

• Concept T IQ Test. By Laurent Duboi. 7 Section test. Standardized. Scoring – Free. Take the test.
  (Admission test for Sigma Society, and potentially other high IQ societies)
• Hydroglyphia IQ Test. By Mislav Predavec. 32 items. Standardized. Scoring. This test is recognized by some of the highest IQ societies, but it would be worth checking with the author for confirmation. $35. Take the test.

‘Standardized’ means that your score can be compared to others in standardized units with an average score of e.g. 100.