Utah Special Function Officer (SFO) Benchmark 1 Practice Test

Cognition refers to the mental processes and activities involved in acquiring, processing, storing, and using information. It includes perceiving input, paying attention, forming and storing memories, and using reasoning, problem-solving, and language to act on what you know. For example, when you study, you notice details, focus on key points, encode them into memory, keep them in memory, and later retrieve and apply that knowledge to answer questions. The other terms describe different domains: adaptive relates to adjusting to new situations, social to interactions with others, and emotional to feelings and affect. So cognition is the term that best captures the full set of information-handling mental processes described.