cognitive testing
Measuring thinking ability
Cognitive testing refers to assessments that measure mental abilities—memory, reasoning, attention, problem-solving, and processing speed.
Doctors use cognitive tests to screen for dementia or track mental decline: Her cognitive testing showed early signs of impairment.
The term gained political currency when applied to presidential fitness, where passing a cognitive test became shorthand for basic mental competence.
- executive functionCognitive self-management abilities
- attentionFocused mental awareness
- working memoryTemporary cognitive holding space
- processing speedMental information-handling rate
- mental agilityQuick, flexible thinking
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- cognitionthinking, reasoning, thought, remembering, memory retrieval
- mental healthpsychiatry, psychotherapy, mental illness, psychiatrist, therapist
- Neuropsychologyexecutive function, working memory, attention, brain injury, neuroimaging
- research methodsexperiment, hypothesis, deduction, experiments, induction
- pediatric checkupswell-child visit, well visit, wellness visit, checkup, school physical
- school psychologyassessments, counseling, IQ tests, evaluations, diagnoses
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