Under Competency 1: Cognitive, which item is included?

• A. Knowledge
• B. Info management
• C. Application of information to real life situations
• D. Ability to recognize gaps in own knowledge

Answer: (A)

This item tests what the cognitive domain centers on: knowledge—the facts, concepts, and relationships you can recall and use in thinking. Cognitive tasks ask you to remember and reason with information, forming the foundation for further analysis and problem solving. Info management is about how you organize and retrieve information, which is a skill related to handling data rather than the knowledge content itself. Applying information to real-life situations involves using what you know in practice, which is more about applying knowledge than the basic content of cognition. Recognizing gaps in your own knowledge reflects metacognition—awareness of what you don’t know—rather than the knowledge content that cognition relies on. Because the cognitive competency is focused on the knowledge you possess and can deploy, knowledge is the element included.