General Knowledge
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General Knowledge is information that has been accumulated over time through various mediums.
High scorers on tests of GK tend to also score highly on intelligence tests. IQ has been found to robustly predict gk scores even after accounting for difference in age. GK is stored as semantic memory, most semantic memory is preserved through old age, though there are deficit is retrieval of certain specific words correlated with aging. People high in GK tend to be highly open to new experiences and in typical intellectual engagement.