Sentences with phrase «underlying cognitive capacities»

Do schools that succeed in raising test scores do so by improving their students» underlying cognitive capacities?

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At the core of the view of Human being underlying paideia and the «Athens» model is the view that the characteristic defining human being is the capacity of reason in intuitive, cognitive judgment to apprehend the ultimate principle of being and of value — that is, God.

Children often experience separation anxiety and while more treatment options exist for children because of their advanced cognitive ability and speech capacity, the underlying disorder is virtually identical to that in dogs.

That, in turn, reduces our cognitive capacity («the psychological mechanisms that underlie our ability to solve problems, retain information, engage in logical reasoning, and so on») and our executive control («our ability to manage our cognitive activities, including planning, attention, initiating, and inhibiting actions, and controlling impulses».

Often only a single untrained task is used to measure near transfer to the underlying cognitive ability.22 The capacity for a single task to accurately reflect multifaceted and complex cognitive abilities is questionable.