What Is Cognitive Flexibility?
Cognitive flexibility is the ability to adjust how we think to reflect different situations. It's how we learn new information or understand other people's perspectives. Hear from Philip...
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Cognitive flexibility is essential for responding rapidly and adaptively to changing situations. You have to get over your old way of thinking and adopt a new way of looking at something. It's absolutely central to social understanding. I understand my point of view on a particular situation, but I need to be cognitively flexible in order to take somebody else's perspective on that same situation. Difficulties with cognitive flexibility can interfere with social understanding in a wide range of different situations. So for example, a child may have real difficulty appreciating that somebody else would like a turn in this situation, or that somebody else doesn't like the same kinds of video games that you like. In general, somebody who is struggling ...
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Cognitive flexibility is essential for responding rapidly and adaptively to changing situations. You have to get over your old way of thinking and adopt a new way of looking at something. It's absolutely central to social understanding. I understand my point of view on a particular situation, but I need to be cognitively flexible in order to take somebody else's perspective on that same situation. Difficulties with cognitive flexibility can interfere with social understanding in a wide range of different situations. So for example, a child may have real difficulty appreciating that somebody else would like a turn in this situation, or that somebody else doesn't like the same kinds of video games that you like. In general, somebody who is struggling ...
