Cognitive Flexibility in Nutshell

The current review article tried to summarily shed light on the importance of cognitive flexibility as a component of our cognitive executive functioning. To this end, the author dealt with four important areas of the definition, the categorization, the task-switching measurement frames, and the significance of the concept as presented and supported by the related literature. Accordingly, the cognitive flexibility was regarded as a mental plasticity that helps individuals in efficient switching between tasks, metacognitive evaluation, time management, mental adaptation, the ability to predict others’ intentions and goals as related to the theory of mind, and response to contextual requirements of given tasks. Regarding the great role it has in students’ success, the author also called for dynamic methods of teaching and invited the future researchers to focus their attention to cognitive flexibility and adaptability issues as they are tied to students’ success.

کلیدواژه ها:

cognitive flexibility ، executive function ، task switching ، goals ، time management