What is the difference between and associative and a cognitive task?
Associative tasks are things that you can do more than one of at a time. For example, most of us can drive a car and carry on a conversation with the passenger at the same time. However, if the weather suddenly turns bad and we are in the middle of a hazardous rainstorm, all of our concentration must be focused on the task of driving. Cognitive task requires full concentration. For some LD kids, processing the question, taking notes, listening, may not be able to speak at the same time they have to do something else, using motor processes can be cognitive tasks. Driving is now a cognitive task, something which takes all of our focus and keeps us from being able to do anything else in combination with this task. For many students with learning disabilities, speaking and/or listening is a cognitive task.
