Cognitive flexibility refers to your mental ability to shift from thinking about one idea to another, as well as being able to think about several ideas all at the same time. Cognitive flexibility has two main subcategories (cognitive shifting and task switching), which depend on whether the change occurs consciously or unconsciously.
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