Now openness, which
measures cognitive flexibility and the willingness to entertain novel ideas, has emerged as a lifelong protective factor.
Similarly, reversal trials involve a change in platform location and
measure the cognitive flexibility of the rodent to recognize that the platform is gone and look somewhere else.
Not exact matches
These tests
measure a variety of skills: creative thinking skills such as fluency,
flexibility, originality, and elaboration; intellectual development based on Piaget's theory of development (Piaget, 1954; Piaget & Inhelder, 1973); language proficiency; and nonverbal perceptual skills of
cognitive development.
At both time points children completed a battery of tasks designed to
measure general
cognitive ability (e.g., non-verbal reasoning) and EF (e.g., inhibition,
cognitive flexibility, working memory).