Executive Functioning questions with correct answers 2023 passed

Executive Functioning What is more critical for school success than IQ? - correct answer Executive function executive function refers to... - correct answer Refers to the goal-oriented, purposeful behaviors that allow an individual to take a strategic approach to problem solving executive functioning includes behaviors such as... - correct answer behaviors such as inhibiting actions, attending selectively to the important information, setting goals, and planning and organizing behaviors executive functioning is critical for... - correct answer Critical for cognitive, social, and psychological development, mental and physical health, and success in school and in life simply speaking executive functioning is the ability... - correct answer Ability to plan, carry out, and monitor a sequence of actions that is intended to accomplish a goal Examples: Completing homework assignments independently Using a system for organizing school work Effectively following a complex school schedule EF is invoked when... - correct answer Invoked when a student faces a complex task and allocates cognitive resources (attention, inhibition, planning, organizing and working memory) examples of self-regulation skills - correct answer paying attention, planning, organizing, strategizing, prioritizing, managing time and space, reasoning the process of learning self-regulation is complete when... - correct answer the student internalizes social talk and makes it self-talk inhibitory control - correct answer The ability to control one's attention, behavior, thoughts and emotions to override a strong internal predisposition and do what is more appropriate or needed The ability to consider when to act and when not to act Staying focused on what you intend to focus on despite distractions; remaining on task; completing tasks despite temptations to give up; delay gratification working memory - correct answer Holding information in mind and mentally working with it Critical for making sense of anything that unfolds over time as that always requires holding in mind what happened earlier and relating that to what is happening now Necessary for making sense of spoken and written language Reading - at sentence level, rare to see all the words at once, so use WM to relate what we read earlier to what we are reading now Critical for reasoning and creativity short term memory - correct answer just holding information in mind cognitive flexibility - correct answer Being able to consider alternatives One aspect - ability to change perspectives either spatially ("How would this look if view from a different direction?) or interpersonally ("Let me see if I can see this from your perspective.") Involves changing how we think about something - allows us to think "outside the box"/ problem solving Involves being able to adjust to changed demands or priorities, take advantage of sudden/unexpected opportunities, overcome sudden problems Opposite of rigidity opposite of rigidity - correct answer cognitive flexibility meta means... - correct answer thinking about 3 main executive functions work together to allow the mind to... - correct answer choose what to focus on and to hold this in mind long enough to think about it