Thinking or Evaluation Skills
by Natasha Boskic
Cognitive Development: Thinking or Evaluation Skills1
Cognitive skills allow a child to function well in school and society. These skills refer to a child’s ability to receive, process and organize information in a way that allows him or her to use the information properly, both in the present time and later on. They include simple and complex skills.
LESS COMPLEX SKILLS INCLUDE:
COMPLEX SKILLS INCLUDE:
- paying attention to and concentrating on a task or activity
- easily changing from one task to another
- recognizing and understanding when a situation is unsafe
- pointing out that something is silly
- identifying missing parts of objects
- engaging in divergent and creative thinking, or thinking “outside the box”
- answering “why do we” questions
- adjusting to changes in the environment and modifying (see full Glossary) one’s plans, accordingly
- remembering directions and instructions
- generalizing (see full Glossary) what one has learned from one situation to the next
- being able to give simple directions
- being able to describe a certain goal viewing a situation from more than one perspective
- understanding that there are consequences to one’s actions.
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