Improving Cognitive Flexibility by Means of Associations

The work examines the effect of association means on the 
cognitive flexibility of the brain. Nowadays the cognitive flexibility is 
one of the critical skills needed to succeed in the workplace. Cognitive 
flexibility corrects human behaviour in a certain way following the 
changing environment. It allows a modern person to work effectively 
to distract from the previous task, reconfigure a new set of answers to 
complete the current task. The article aims to determine the 
significance of the means of association for improving cognitive 
flexibility in foreign languages classes. The study involved 70 students 
of the Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts and was 
conducted between October 2020 and December 2020. Learning a 
foreign language and bilingualism in and of themselves have an 
impact on the cognitive functions of the brain. In our paper, we 
consider the means of associations not only as one of the tools for 
studying foreign languages but as a means of improving cognitive 
flexibility. According to the study, it can be concluded that, despite 
the increased interest in the associative method, multiple studies in 
this area of research demonstrate different and sometimes conflicting 
results.  It is important to note that associative methods have a 
positive effect on improving cognitive flexibility in combination with 
creative thinking.