Cognitive Flexibility

Cognitive flexibility is...

• being good at gymnastics.

• the ability to do a lot of different stuff.

• the ability to think of something in a different way.

Cognitive flexibility...

• helps you adjust to change

• helps you be a better problems solver

• all of the above

Tom and Jane earned low scores on their science quiz and are studying to retake it. Tom used flashcards the first time, so now he is going to go to tutoring. Jane looked over her notes during TNT for the first quiz and will review her notes again during TNT before her retake. Who has cognitive flexibility?

• Tom

• Jane

Joe is a great writer but not a good typist. He loses points on his papers because there are errors on his papers. He uses spell check and reads over his papers. How can he practice cognitive flexibility?

• Read more carefully.

• Use Natural Reader and have the paper read back to him so he can hear it.

• Improve his typing.

Cognitive flexibility gives you the skills to try understand another person's view point, by putting yourself in their shoes.

• true

• false

The idiom, "putting yourself in someone else's shoes," means...

• you will wear their shoes.

• you don't understand someone.

• you will try to understand how the other person feels and why they think/act a certain way

Metacognition is...

• how a person thinks about their thinking.

• how the brain works.

• knowing how smart you are.

This stores pieces of information that you can use to solve problems such as how to go through the lunch lines.

• long term memory

• working memory

• short term memory

You use this to calculate the speed of a car.

• working memory

• short term memory

• long term memory

Knowing your strengths, weaknesses, beliefs and motives is ...

• a weakness

• a strength

• self- awareness