Sentences with phrase «fluid reasoning skills»

The question of whether processing speed, working memory, and fluid reasoning skills can be developed through intentional efforts is an area of active debate among cognitive psychologists.

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Similarly, in a re-analysis of results of a previous study, my colleague Brooke Macnamara and I found that fluid intelligence — the general ability to reason and think logically — was a strong positive predictor of skill in the board game GO, as measured by a laboratory task that was specially designed to measure a GO player's ability to evaluate game situations and select optimal moves.

Specifically, they are in charge of improving your fluid intelligence which covers the person's problem - solving aptitude, verbal fluency, abstract reasoning skills, as well as their memory recall and storage.

BCRC's focus on non-tested skills reflects mounting evidence that both cognitive skills (e.g., processing speed, working memory, and fluid reasoning) and non-cognitive (or social - emotional) skills are critical to student success in school and later in life.

The fluid cognitive skills we measured for each student included processing speed, working memory, and fluid reasoning.

The correlations between our measures of fluid cognitive skills and 8th - grade math test scores are positive and statistically significant, ranging from 0.27 for working memory to 0.53 for fluid reasoning.

The authors distinguish two aspects of cognitive ability: crystallized knowledge, which comprises acquired knowledge such as vocabulary and arithmetic; and fluid cognitive skills, the abstract - reasoning capabilities such as the ability to recognize patterns and make extrapolations needed to solve novel problems independent of how much factual knowledge has been acquired.

Crystallized knowledge comprises acquired knowledge such as vocabulary and arithmetic, while fluid skills are the abstract - reasoning capabilities needed to solve novel problems (such as the ability to identify patterns and make extrapolations) independent of how much factual knowledge has been acquired.

Fluid arithmetic skills and knowledge of standard algorithms are also important, but most children will become frustrated if they don't understand the reasoning and logic behind these math strategies.