The Possible Relationship of Cognitive Style Rigidity-Flexibility of Cognitive Control with Properties of Nervous System

Effects of Adventure Based Group Counselling on Cognitive Flexibility and Intolerance of Uncertainty Levels of Counselling Psychologists Candidates

“…"When I am confronted with an uncertain situation, I can make a contribution to the client by considering the alternatives more positively and flexibly." (Participant 8, Session 2) Cognitive flexibility is defined as ability to switch between thoughts (Stevens, 2009;Crone, Ridderinkhof, Worm, Somsen, & van der Molen, 2004), interaction of multiple mechanisms to respond to multiple demands (Ionescu, 2012;Barbey, Colom& Grafman, 2013); ability to produce alternative solutions (Silver, Hughes, Bornstein &Beversdorf, 2004;Maria, 2006). Bilgin (2009) defines cognitive flexibility as as awareness of individuals related to the options and their adaptation to the different and new situations as well as their competent feelings in those situations.…”

Relationship between multidimensional perfectionism and cognitive flexibility in university students

“…Many definitions have been made because of the complex structure of cognitive flexibility, and because of its requirement of the interaction with various processes. It is seen that definitions for CF are made such as; ability to change cognitions according to changing environmental conditions (Crone, Ridderinkhof, Worm, Somsen, & van der Molen, 2004;Dennis, & Vander Wal, 2010;Stevens, 2009); competence belief in adapting to different options (Bilgin, 2009;Maltby, Day, McClutcheon, Martin & Cayanus, 2004;Martin & Rubin, 1995); interaction of multiple mechanisms to respond to multiple requests (Barbey, Colom, & Grafman, 2013;Ionescu, 2012); ability to produce alternative solutions (Maria, 2006;Silver, Hughes, Bornstein, & Beversdorf, 2004); the specificity of human intelligence (Boroditsky, Neville, Karns, Markman, & Spivey, 2010); a type of fluent intelligence (Beversdorf, Hughes, Steinberg, Lewis, & Heilman, 1999); semantic relationship forming and arrnging process (Stahl & Pry, 2005).…”