Cognitive Assessment Methods

Running head: Cognitive assessment methods
COGNITIVE ASSESSMENT METHODS

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Cognitive assessment methods
Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Cognitive assessment.......................................................................................................................2
Components of cognitive assessment..........................................................................................2
Cognitive assessment methods.....................................................................................................3
Cognitive assessment of a person....................................................................................................3
Participant background................................................................................................................3
Tests used for assessment............................................................................................................3
Attention test............................................................................................................................4
Perception test..........................................................................................................................4
Memory test..............................................................................................................................5
Overall assessment.......................................................................................................................5
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................6
Reference list...................................................................................................................................7

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Cognitive assessment methods
Introduction
Cognition generally refers to an ability of thinking that has an utmost effect on everything
that human beings do every day. In order to be more specific, cognition depends upon various
cognitive abilities or brain capabilities such as intellectual, perceptual, reasoning abilities, long
term or short term memory and more. Thus, in order to assess the cognitive level of a person,
his/her cognitive abilities need to be assessed. Thus, this study has revolved around report based
on a cognitive assessment done on a person. For that reason, an overall discussion of cognitive
assessment and cognitive assessment methods has been illuminated in this study. For the
assessment procedure, certain cognitive abilities have been selected and focused upon that
include attention, perception, short term memory and long term memory of the chosen
participant. Furthermore, some tests have been conducted, on the participant, which have been
discussed in brief along with the test results.
Cognitive assessment
Components of cognitive assessment
Cognitive assessment refers to all those techniques that help in assessing or predicting the
cognitive abilities of human beings. There can be two types of cognitive assessment techniques
including computerized and paper-pencil based tasks. Both quantitative and qualitative
approaches can be used in order to get a firm knowledge of cognitive weaknesses and strengths
of a particular person (Morley et al. 2015). In this context, it can be added that there are some
important components that are needed to be considered while assessing a person’s mental
abilities such as attention, perception, memory, frontal functioning and more.
Among them, attention tests help in evaluating the ability of focusing on a particular
environmental aspect without getting distracted by other environmental aspects at that the time
of focusing. Both short and long term memory assessment tests help in assessing the ability of
how a person can remember something and for how long. On the other hand, perception tests are
helpful in examining the ability of observing certain objects and the ability of observing the
interrelation among different objects.