Title: Shifting- Cognitive Ability
Headings: What is Cognitive Shifting?
What is Cognitive Shifting?
Development of Cognitive Shifting and Mental Flexibility
Examples of Cognitive Shifting and Mental Flexibility
Cognitive Rigidity: Poor Cognitive Flexibility and Mental Shifting
Disorders or pathologies associated with poor cognitive flexibility and mental shifting or mental rigidity
Tools or tests to assess cognitive shifting or mental rigidity
How can you improve cognitive shifting?

Content: Cognitive rigidity is the consequence of a lack of mental flexibility. It could be defined as the inability to change behavior or beliefs when they are ineffective in order to reach your objective. Cognitive rigidity could cause alterations in the regulation of the behavior, creating inefficient behavioral patterns. If you were asked to say words that begin with the letter "A", without being able to use proper nouns, and the only word you could think of was "Anthony", you would be experiencing cognitive rigidity, as you would be unable to create alternatives to "Anthony". The feeling that this phenomenon causes is feeling "stuck", without being able to find a way out. Cognitive rigidity can have negative consequences in daily life, as you may find that there are often situations that require you to create alternative strategies or solutions. There are different degrees of cognitive flexibility or rigidity. The earlier example would be an extreme degree of cognitive rigidity, but other cases may not be so clear. However, even lower degrees of cognitive rigidity will likely interrupt daily life (when a child has a hard time changing from subject to subject without forgetting information). Why do some people have cognitive rigidity?