Cognitive skills - Executive Functions

Question 1

Executive Function

Answer 1

Concept formation and categorization
Schemas and scripts
Problem solving
Decision making 
Metacognition

Question 2

Concept formation and categorization

Answer 2

How knowledge is organized and divided into categories

Requires to function in most daily activities

Question 3

Schemas and Scripts

Answer 3

Mental representations that create structure from concepts

Help organize

Question 4

Problem solving

Answer 4

How to achieve a goal; involves overcoming obstacles that interfere with attainment

Expert vs. Novice may affect problem solving

Question 5

Decision making

Answer 5

K and T suggests that people use a small number of heuristics or rule of thumb to make decisions

Question 6

Representative heuristic- choose clothing based on today’s weather

Answer 6

Make decision based on a prototype of what something looks like
eg- weather, taste

Question 7

Availability

Answer 7

estimate frequency based on how easy it is to think of an example
eg- familiar with people who goes to college , so you choose to go

Question 8

Anchoring and adjustment

Answer 8

start with an anchor then make adjustments based on new information
eg- stereotypes

Question 9

Metacognition

Answer 9

Cognition about your own cognition
Awareness of what you know and do not know
Includes recognizing mistakes
Also awareness of cognitive deficits

Question 10

Poor metacognition

Answer 10

Continues to make same mistakes over and over again