You will prepare and submit a term paper on Relationship between Cognitive Skills and Academic Achievement. Your paper should be a minimum of 2750 words in length. One of the areas believed to affect the ability of an individual to perform and improve his chance of getting a better grade is cognitive ability.

Cognitive ability is defined as the internal ability to perform a higher mental process of reasoning, involving memorizing, understanding, and solving different problems. According to a number of psychological theories, cognitive ability is viewed as a multidimensional that concerns the understanding of different spheres of life (Preckel & Roberts 484). The understanding of people differs, with some people having a stronger and higher understanding and ability to understand things quicker as compared to the others.

These people are capable to solve different problems faster and understand the relationship between things that other people are not able to see on the superficial face. Such people are known as smart and given a higher intelligence quotient value as compared to others considered as slow learners. Cognitive abilities have been related to improved academic performance in a number of research with psychologists arguing that individuals with higher cognitive abilities are better placed to perform best in academic endeavors as compared to those with lower cognitive abilities.&nbsp.

Different situations arise in the lives that require us to make informed decisions that shall shape the way for our lives. Every decision made must well think of for we will live with the consequences of such actions. Cognitive psychology has continued to achieve much attention today due to the prominence it gives to the process of decision-making. Cognitive psychology has generated many theories that have been used to explain the procedures that humans adopt in trying to make a well-informed decision (Preckel & Roberts 489).

The development of the use of cognitive tests in determining the abilities of an individual was first introduced by Spearman in 1904.