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Cognitive: Pertaining to thoughts or thinking. Cognitive disorders are disorders of thinking, for example, schizophrenia.

Cognitive Ability Testing: A testing instrument used during the selection process in order to measure the candidate’s learning and reasoning abilities.

Cognitive Dysfunction: A negative symptom of schizophrenia resulting in impairments of attention, memory, concentration and hearing.

Cognitive Service: Diagnostic services a doctor provides during delivery of medical services, consultations or care.

Intelligence Quotient (IQ): A test that calculates a person's purported mental capacity. IQ tests have become increasingly controversial because critics claim they measure only a narrow band of intellectual strengths. . . . View Full Definition

Psychological Test: A written, visual or verbal assessment administered to determine cognitive and emotional skills.

Whorfs Hypothesis: A proposal that language affects how its speakers perceive and react to the world--and that the limitations of language thus become the limitations of human thought. Although first set forwa . . . View Full Definition

Fetal Alcohol Effect (FAE): A disorder associated with cognitive and behavioral difficulties in children whose birth mothers drank alcohol while pregnant. Symptoms are similar to fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) but less s . . . View Full Definition

Long-Term Care Insurance: Long-term care insurance is a policy designed to cover at least some of your expenses if you have a chronic but not life-threatening illness, long-term disability, or you are unable to live . . . View Full Definition

Psychotherapy: Therapy involving psychological instead of medical treatment of mental disorders. It can include supportive dialogue, counseling, and cognitive behavioral approaches to achieve a thinking-fe . . . View Full Definition