Cognition

Question 1

Theory of Mind

Answer 1

Describes a child’s/person’s cognitive ability to understand that another individual’s thoughts, feelings, beliefs, intentions, and desires can differ from their own.

Question 2

Cognition

Answer 2

Knowledge + Intellectual Capacity
Mechanisms that allow a child to achieve cognitive skills and abilities.

Question 3

Cognitive Abilities

Answer 3

Adapt to environment
Draw abstractions
Plan
Generalise
Reflect
Compare/Contrast
Represent/Use symbols
Learn Language
Store Information

Question 4

Working Memory

Answer 4

Hold information in the mind for use.

Question 5

Social Cognition

Answer 5

Ability to recognise and understand social signals.

Allows child/person to determine what information is known or needed, identify possible misunderstandings, see another point of view, interact appropriately given identified mental states.

Question 6

Executive Functioning

Answer 6

Cognitive abilities used to control and coordinate information for:
planning goals
controlling responses
initiating or transitioning between tasks
using working memory

Question 7

Executive Functions: Examples

Answer 7

Inhibition
Initiation
Planning
Working Memory
Attention
Discrimination
Problem Solving
Verbal Reasoning
Theory of Mind

Question 8

Metacognition

Answer 8

Knowledge of own thought processes.
Planning, monitoring and analysing own thinking and behaviours.

Question 9

Metalinguistic Abilities

Answer 9

Thinking about language, manipulating structural language features at phoneme, word and sentence level.