Cognitive abilities Capacity to reason,remember,understand,solveproblems& make decisions; Intelligence is one of the major cognitive abilities.
Intelligence includes 3 main characteristics:
1) Able to learn, to profit by experience & to act with foresight; to grasp essential relation; remember, reason & perform other information-processing skills. 2) Using those skills to solve problems 3) Able to alter or adapt to new or changing environments