Wisdom, or the capacity for insight and judgment that is developed through experience, increases between the ages of fourteen and twenty-five, then levels off. Thus, it is during the adolescence-adulthood transition that individuals acquire the type of wisdom that is associated with age. Wisdom is <answer>not</answer> the same as intelligence: adolescents do <answer>not</answer> improve substantially on IQ tests since their scores are relative to others in their same age group, and relative standing usually does <answer>not</answer> change—everyone matures at approximately the same rate in this way.
Do adolescents perform significantly better on IQ tests than other age groups?
not