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What is more important for school success than IQ? -Answer Executive function
executive function refers to. -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. -Answer behaviors such as inhibiting
actions, attending selectively to the important information, setting goals and planning
and organizing behaviors
Executive functioning is critical for. - 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. - Answer Ability to plan carry out
and monitor a sequence of actions that is intended to accomplish a goal
Examples:
Independently completing homework assignments
Utilizing a system for organizing school work
Following a complex school schedule effectively
EF is invoked when. - 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 - Answer paying attention, planning, organizing,
strategizing, prioritizing, managing time and space, reasoning
, the process of learning self-regulation is complete when. - Answer the student
internalizes social talk and makes it self-talk
Inhibitory control - The ability to control attention, to suppress thoughts and feelings and
behaviors in order to do what is more adaptive of appropriate
The ability to ruminate on which sights and sounds merit an action and which do not
Stay focused on what you intend to focus on despite distractions; stay on task; finish
tasks despite temptations to quit; delay gratification
working memory-Answer Holding information in mind and mentally working with it
Essential to 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
Vital to making sense of spoken and written language
Reading - at sentence level, seldom see all the words in a single glance, so we use WM
to relate what we read earlier to what we are reading now
Critical for reasoning and creativity
STM - Response just holding information in mind
cognitive flexibility - Response 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 - Answer cognitive flexibility
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