Pymetrics Games Cognitive Flexibility and Adaptability 2

Question 1

In the Pymetrics Cards game, what primarily changes that demands cognitive flexibility from the player?

Accepted Answer

The sorting rules and reward contingencies

Answer

The Cards game shifts which choices are rewarded without warning, requiring players to detect the change and abandon previously successful strategies.

Question 2

A Pymetrics candidate who repeatedly applies outdated strategies after the reward rules have changed is demonstrating:

Accepted Answer

Cognitive rigidity

Answer

Cognitive rigidity is the failure to update behavior in response to changed feedback, which is the opposite of the flexibility Pymetrics measures.

Question 3

What is 'proactive interference' in the context of Pymetrics cognitive flexibility games?

Accepted Answer

When previously learned rules hinder adaptation to new rules

Answer

Proactive interference occurs when earlier learning actively competes with and slows down the adoption of new rules or strategies.

Question 4

Pymetrics games that involve reversal learning test your ability to:

Accepted Answer

Unlearn a previously rewarded behavior and adopt an opposite one

Answer

Reversal learning requires suppressing a well-practiced rewarded response and replacing it with its opposite when contingencies flip, directly testing cognitive flexibility.

Question 5

Which of the following best describes 'set shifting' as measured through Pymetrics games?

Accepted Answer

Moving from one cognitive rule or mental framework to another

Answer

Set shifting is the executive function of disengaging from one cognitive 'set' (rule or strategy) and engaging a new one, a core skill measured by Pymetrics.

Pymetrics Games Practice Test

Pymetrics Games Practice Test

Pymetrics Games Cognitive Flexibility and Adaptability 2