Category Cognitive Abilities

Short-term memory is temporary retention: keeping

Quantitative reasoning is not simply being good at

Visual-spatial ability is the broad capacity to represent

Verbal comprehension draws on vocabulary, concepts and

Crystallized knowledge is what cognitive ability looks like

Fluid reasoning is the broad ability involved when a

Processing speed is not simply "how fast your brain works."

Working memory is the limited system that keeps information available for use in ongoing thought. It matters whenever we must hold onto something while doing something else with it.