shield suggests protective intervention in imminent danger or actual attack. shielded her eyes from the sun with her hand; guard implies protecting with vigilance and force against expected danger. White House entrances are well guarded; safeguard implies taking precautionary protective measures against merely possible danger
The test, called the Montreal Cognitive Assessment, or Moca, is a 10-minute screening exam meant to highlight possible problems with thinking and memory. But it is by no means definitive, nor even diagnostic, experts pointed out. Screening tests like these cannot rule out declines in reasoning or memory, or difficulties with planning or judgment.
In neuropsychology and cognitive psychology, cognitive ability, or intelligence or executive functioning is the level of functioning in intellectual tasks demonstrating the capacity to control and planfully apply one's own mental skills.ognitive Psychology: Attention Â· Decision making Â· Learning Â· Judgement Â· Memory Â· Motivation Â· Perception Â· Reasoning Â· Thinking-Cognitive processes Cognition-Outline Index.