cognitive skills
Brain-based learning capacities
Cognitive skills are mental abilities used for learning, thinking, and problem-solving.
They include memory, attention, reasoning, language processing, and spatial awareness.
The term appears often in educational and developmental contexts: The program helps children develop cognitive skills, Her cognitive skills remained sharp into her nineties.
Cognitive skills can be strengthened through practice or decline with age or injury.
- inhibitory controlSuppressing prepotent responses
- creative thinkingGenerating original ideas
- decision-makingProcess of choosing actions
- pattern recognitionIdentifying regularities in inputs
- hypothesis testingStatistical method for evaluating claims
thinking cap · fluid intelligence · divided attention · sustained attention · selective attention · procedural memory · verbal fluency · self-monitoring · sharp mind · brain training · learning curve · metacognition · concentration · abstract thinking · cognitive load · mental agility · inductive reasoning · working memory
- child developmentbaby, toddler, newborn, infancy, milestones
- cognitionthinking, reasoning, thought, remembering, memory retrieval
- intellectintelligence, intellect, brainpower, mind, smartness
- prison programsGED classes, GED programs, vocational training, life skills, drug treatment
- school readinesskindergarten, kindergarten screening, preschool readiness, readiness, school readiness
- sport psychologymental toughness, flow state, self-talk, concentration, confidence
cognitive skillsmotor skills
Coordinated bodily movement ability
physical strength · manual dexterity · physical prowess · gross motor skills · fine motor skills
cognitive skillsemotional intelligence
Capacity for managing feelings
intuition · emotional responses · gut feeling · emotional awareness · empathy