Cognitive Psychology: Cognitive Abilities and Academic performances in Nigerian Secondary schools part One

The Nigerian secondary schools both public,  community and private had been full with students of different potentialities. But most of them were hidden because they were not given the opportunity to expose themselves. Governments, private organisations have been doing lesser effort on this  that was the reason why a lot of solutions to Nigerian problems in the field of education and politics were unsolved. 

According  Liu (2013), defined cognitive abilities as the abilities that require the working of human mind. This means human minds are playing vital roles in accomplishing and igniting cognitive abilities of Nigerian students. 

Bloom in his Taxonomy of educational objectives, helps to express the learning outcomes in the way to reflect cognitive abilities. He identified Six skills at different levels which includes: knowledge,  comprehension, analysis, application, synthesis and evaluation. 

Cognitive abilities are very important abilities which help adolescents to accomplish their educational hopes and shape their world in order to cope with the challenges of this material world. If government and private individuals could work hard they can bring out many young Nigerians creatives and innovative that can help to in solving Nigerian problems in the field of education, job creation and development basic infrastructure for well being of the citizens. 

Here are eight core cognitive abilities sustained by Nigerian students by (Akanni, 2021): sustained attention, response inhibition, speed of information processing, cognitive flexibility and control, multiple simulteous attention,  working memory, category formation and pattern recognition. See me next week for part two insha Allah. 

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