General Remarks What Are Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Abilities?
10.11307/mededjapan.55.4_294
- VernacularTitle:総論 認知能力・非認知能力とは何か
- Author:
Atsushi OSHIO
1
Author Information
1. Faculty of Letters, Arts and Sciences, Waseda University
- Keywords:
cognition;
ability;
skill;
non-cognitive abilities;
non-cognitive skills
- From:Medical Education
2024;55(4):294-300
- CountryJapan
- Language:Japanese
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Abstract:
This paper reviews the basic knowledge of noncognitive abilities, which have been greatly discussed literature in recent years, and deliberate implications for medical education. Noncognitive ability is a term that implies separation from being a cognitive ability. However, here, the binary value of ability does not refer to a wide range of cognitive abilities, but rather to a narrower range of abilities measured by intelligence tests and academic achievement tests. Noncognitive ability is defined in terms of four aspects: noncognitive, measurable, predictive, and intervening. Noncognitive competence includes many psychological characteristics, all of which are important in the practice of medicine and should be systematically developed.
