Organization, Cognitive

Using selective attention skills, the individual correctly perceives stimulus attributes or task elements, selects a strategy, monitors use of the strategy and reaches a correct solution.   Low Level:  Those individuals who can sustain attention and appropriately switch sets.  Persons with low-level organization ability usually “fall apart” in high stress situations.   High Level:  Those individuals who can deal with multiple pieces of information and integrate them for accomplishing relatively complex tasks.  Some persons demonstrating high-level cognitive organization may still “fall apart” in high stress situations.