The Link Between Cognitive Abilities And Memory

The brain provides us with many cognitive abilities. Let’s discuss them in further detail to better understand the benefits which they provide.

Cognitive abilities are skills which are controlled by the brain which allow us to carry out many different tasks from simple to highly complex. They are focused more on how we learn, remember (memory) and solve problems rather than with any specific knowledge. A task can be broken down into a number of different cognitive skills which need to be done to complete the task successfully.

For example to answer the phone effectively, a person has to be able to perceive the ring tone and know that it means that the phone should be picked up; the person is actively using its memory to do that And language skills are involved in order to allow the person to understand what the conversation is comprised of. And social skills can play a strong role in interpreting what the sound and emphasis of the conversation can mean.

Here is a listing of some cognitive abilities and what they entail:

1.Category Flexibility - This is the ability to generate or use differing sets of rules to combine or group things in many different ways.
2.Deductive Reasoning - This is the ability to apply rules to address specific problems in order to gain answers which make sense to the individual.
3.Fluency of Ideas - The ability to derive a number of ideas about a particular topic
4.Inductive Reasoning - This is the ability to combine a number of pieces of information together in order to formulate a conclusion.
5.Mathematical Reasoning - The ability to choose the correct strategy or formulas to solve a mathematical problem.
6.Memorization - The ability to store, organize and recall different information which a person was previously exposed to in the memory.
7.Oral Comprehension - The ability to listen to something and understand its meaning. This can be a conversation or recognizing the meaning of a particular sound (like a warning siren, etc.)
8.Oral Expression - The ability to communicate verbally such that other people understand what you are trying to say.
9.Originality - The ability to come up with unique ideas about a topic or creative ways to solve a problem.
10.Perceptual Speed - The rate at which a person can perceive different stimuli.
11.Number Facility - The ability to add, subtract, multiply or divide numbers.
12.Visualization - The ability to see how something will look following a change but before it is actually done. So for example, this skill can be used such that a person can see how the room will change when a piece of furniture is moved or removed.

There are many other cognitive abilities but this is a sampling to illustrate how important they are and how they can significantly how we live our lives and deal with the world around us.