Even if one focuses
only on cognitive skills, different grades teach different content and different skills.
Not exact matches
These effects endured not
only throughout the animals» lives but were carried
on to the next generation and along the same gender lines: The offspring of dual - parented pups turned in superior performances
on tests of
cognitive ability and social
skills than mice raised by single parents.
In a separate report, a council of 28 scientists called
on schools to focus
on SEL, making the argument that student success is tied not
only to academic ability and
cognitive skills (such as working memory and self - regulation) but also to emotional
skills (such as the ability to cope with frustration) and interpersonal
skills (including empathy and the ability to resolve conflict).
Appropriate garnering of the stress response in anticipation of this social challenge would be expected based
on previous data.8, 13,50 In the current study, this was observed
only after the intervention, possibly because of intervention - induced changes in
cognitive appraisal, including the value placed
on peer interactions, attention to instructions about the peer entry task, self - assessment of
skills to be used during the pending task, and emotion and behavior regulation during the stimulus presentation.
Too many measure
only half the child, focusing
on IQ and
cognitive gains at the expense of social and emotional
skills that are often stronger determinants of adult success.
Only when the fear of rejection or abandonment has been soothed will the
cognitive skills come back
on - line.