The first cognitive ability is fluid reasoning also known as fluid intelligence is the ability of our mind to understand a situation and therefore to think quickly and develop a response to that situation, this ability also applies to long-term memory term. He went on to tell me that cognitive abilities are brain-based abilities that we use to perform simple or more difficult tasks. They are closely related to how we learn, remember things, solve problems and pay attention rather than any prior knowledge of the subject. He also explained to me that there are 7 main cognitive functions: perception, attention, memory, motor skills, language, vision, spatial processing and executive functions and he told me that I will only go into detail about the important ones. Perception is our response to things we recognize and interpret such as our sense of smell. Attention is the ability to maintain concentration on an object, action or thought. Memory is the ability to remember long and short term