Measures of Set-Switching and Cognitive Flexibility among School Adolescents

Abstract

Our study mainly emphasized on the cognitive control processes that are essential when automatic behavior/processes are not enough to achieve targets. Present study aims to examine the relationship of executive processes through verbal and non-verbal tasks of set-switching with cognitive flexibility. For achieving the aim, Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST) – a measure of cognitive set-switching (Non-verbal task), Numerical problem-solving task following rule switching (verbal task) and Color-Word Stroop test – a measure of cognitive flexibility was administered on 296 school adolescents with an age range between 12 to 15 years. Results revealed significant correlation among verbal and non-verbal measures of set switching and cognitive flexibility.