Noncognitive

As I was reading “The Boys at the back” by Christina Hoff Sommers I came across the word “Noncognitive” in the third paragraph of the reading piece. It is included in the context “The scholars attributed this “misalignment” to differences in “noncognitive skills”: ” According to the Merriam-webster dictionary the word “noncognitive” means not relating to or based on conscious intellectual activity or not based on or capable of being reduced to empirical factual knowledge. Basically, the word means instead of referring to an individual’s ability to process thoughts, non-cognitive skills are those attitudes, behaviors, and strategies which facilitate success in school and workplace, such as motivation, perseverance, and self-control.