Cognitive Skills

Which of the following are qualities employers might look for when assessing your             cognitive ability during the hiring process.

• Brainstorming

• Recognizing patters of events

• All of the above

The kind of memory that lasts for only a second or two is?

• Working Memory

• Sensory Memory

Cognitive development involves everything that happens within your brain when you perform a task.

• True

• False

The brain grows and strengthens itself in three ways:

• 1. Growing new brain cells

  2. Pruning some of the extra growth

  3. Strengthening connections

• 1. Field education on cognitive development.

  2. Field practicum

  3. Pre-practicum courses

• non of the above

Cognitive skills can be displayed through remembering, problem solving, decision-making, learning to talk and learning to count.

• True

• False

The use of cognitive strategies increase the efficiency with which the learner approaches a learning task. 

• True

• False

What numbers are these? Forty and two thousandth    

• 40.002

• 40.0002

• 40. 02

You want to buy a car that costs $100,000.  You only have $5,000.  If you buy the car, what will your debt be?

• $-95,000

• $95,000

• $950.00

What is 35% as a decimal

• 0.35

• 0.035

• 00.35

What is 0.75 as a percentage

• 75%

• 7.5%

• 7.50%