What cognitive abilities must the jobholder possess?

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What cognitive abilities must the jobholder possess?

The term “cognitive ability” is the combination of two words i.e. Cognitive & Ability. Lets explain it one by one that what the thing these are:

Ability:
It is derived from French word which means The quality or state of being able; power to perform, whether physical, moral, intellectual, conventional, or legal; capacity; skill or competence in doing; sufficiency of strength, skill, resources, etc.; -- in the plural, faculty, talent.
Cognition:
The term cognition (Latin: cognoscere, "to know") is used in several loosely related ways to refer to a faculty for the jobholder processing of information, applying knowledge and changing preferences. Cognition or cognitive processes can be natural and artificial, conscious and not conscious; therefore, they are analyzed from different perspectives and in different contexts, in anesthesia, neurology, psychology, philosophy, systemics and computer science. The concept of cognition is closely related to such abstract concepts as mind, reasoning, perception, intelligence, learning, and many others that describe numerous capabilities of the human mind and expected properties of artificial or synthetic intelligence. Cognition is an abstract property of advanced living organisms; therefore, it is studied as a direct property of a brain or of an abstract mind on subsymbolic and symbolic levels.

Hub of the topic:
After the extensive study on cognitive abilities which jobholder has to possess in order to perform the task assigned, I come to know that some are indispensable for the concern. Therefore, I want to tell you few of them which are as given below:
1. Visuospatial Classification: The jobholder must have the ability to accurately distinguish relevant features, count and group visual objects based on a concept or rule.
2. Visuospatial Sequencing: This ability of jobholder in order to discriminate and discern the sequential order of visual objects accurately based on a concept or rule.
3. Visual Perception: The ability of visual perception should be possess by jobholder for ability to accurately discriminate and respond appropriately to fixed visual objects within the field of vision.
4. Visual Processing Speed: The time it takes to perceive relevant visual stimuli, encode and interpret it and then make an appropriate response. *These units train speed but speed is not part of scoring on tests-Speed is documented for comparison later
5. Visual Scanning: This ability to accurately discriminate and respond appropriately to visual objects that appear without a cue and randomly over time within the field of vision.
6. Visual Tracking: the ability to follow a continuous visual cue, accurately discriminate and respond appropriately to visual objects that move continuously within the field of vision.
7. Working Memory: That ability to encode and "hold" perceptual information while processing and the capability to recall and apply relevant procedural rules in order to accurately respond.
8. Alternating Attention: This ability to shift the focus of attention quickly back and forth between two different sets of stimuli in the same sensory modality and respond appropriately.
9. Auditory Processing Speed: The time it takes to perceive relevant auditory stimuli, encode and interpret it and then make an appropriate response. *These units train speed but speed is not part of scoring on tests- Speed is documented for comparison later
10. Central Processing Speed: Apart from time it takes to encode, categorize, and understand the meaning of any sensory stimuli which is the focus of attention. (This may theoretically be computed by subtracting the time it takes for simple sensory perception and any resultant meteoric responding. In some cases it may be possible to measure more directly using evoked potentials.) *These units train speed but speed is not part of scoring on tests-Speed is documented for comparison later
11. Conceptual Reasoning: This part of cognitive skills which include concept formation (the capacity to analyze relationships between objects), abstraction (the ability to think symbolically), deductive logic (the application of general rules or concepts in making a decision for a specific set of stimuli) and/or inductive logic (the analysis of feedback or identification of relevant details in formulating a concept to use in decision making).
12. Detailed Reading: The ability to read, understand and implement detailed instructions correctly.
13. Divided Attention: The capability to attend to, process and respond appropriately to two or more different types of sensory stimuli (typically visual and auditory) which occur simultaneously or in close temporal proximity in the environment.
14. Focused Attention: The ability to recognize and respond to specific relevant stimuli. General Attention: the ability to focus, sustain and selectively attend to relevant stimuli and make correct responses (a combination of Focused, Sustained and Selective attention as defined above). Response Inhibition: the capability of understanding and holding in working memory a rule which defines a correct response and of using this rule to help avoid automatically reacting to an incorrect stimuli. Selective Attention: the capacity to continue making a correct response during a task when competing or distracting stimuli are present. Sustained Attention: the capability of maintaining consistent and accurate responses during a continuous and repetitive activity.

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