Activity Description
Time for a summer adventure! Observe the starfish carefully on the beach! A wave will bring new ones. Remember the original ones and try to spot only the starfish that are new, those that weren’t there before. It’s a game of observation and memory. Get ready to cool off and have a great time!
Targeted cognitive skills
- Short Term Memory: The ability to the reproduce, recognise, or recall a limited amount of material after a period of about 10 to 30 seconds.
- Working Memory: The ability to hold information in consciousness for adaptive use. This can include information from all sensory modalities, verbal and nonverbal ones. Working memory is conceptualized to include two separable components: maintenance of information and manipulation of information. Maintenance of information includes memory for verbal information, spatial information and other information (including emotional) across multiple sensory channels. Manipulation of information is the process of operating on information stored in working memory storage.
- Decision making: The cognitive process of choosing between two or more alternatives, ranging from the relatively clear cut (e.g., ordering a meal at a restaurant) to the complex (e.g., selecting a mate).
- Inhibition: The process of restraining one’s impulses or behavior, either consciously or unconsciously, due to factors such as lack of confidence, fear of consequences, or moral qualms.
- Spatial representation: The process of defining and organizing spatial properties, such as the position, shape, and size of objects.
- Relation between elements in space /spatial ability: The skill required to orient or perceive one’s body in space or to detect or reason about relationships within or between objects in space.
