Executive function

Question 1

Name processes involved in executive function

Answer 1

Memory
Organisation
Planning
Time management
GOAL ORIENTED
flexibility

Question 2

List situations where EF is required

Answer 2

• Situation requires response that competes with a strong, habitual response
• A novel solution is required, task isn’t well learnt
• Situation requires error correction or troubleshooting

Question 3

Outline features of EF

Answer 3

Subtle deficits
Normal speech, perception, IQ
Loss of goal oriented behaviour
Stimulus driven behaviour
Disinhibition (socially inappropriate)
Unilateral frontal damage

Question 4

Describe contention scheduling

Answer 4

Goal directing is automatic, automatically choose one and inhibit the other
More preferable due to reception/reward- outcome
BOTTOM UP

Question 5

Describe the supervisory attention system

Answer 5

You have to actively choose which routine to do-
correct behaviour for context
TOP DOWN

Question 6

Simple exec function tests

Answer 6

Verbal fluency- 60 seconds to name word beginning with F, A, S
Members of category

Sequenced movements eg LLRLLR- struggle

Interpretation/abstraction
Similarities, estimates- PARKINSON’S AND SCHIZOPHRENIA

Question 7

Describe Wisconsin card sorting task

Answer 7

sort my colour / shape/ number - have to change which its sorted by. you have to be able to correct where youre wrong
change rule of sorting cards
measure of frontal lobe function

Question 8

what is stroop task

Answer 8

used to measure your control of inhibition.
you want to read the words but need to inhibit that task to be able to say the colour of the word
accentuate attended info, exclude irrelevant info

Question 9

what is n back task

Answer 9

Remember letter on card and say snap when you see card you saw 2 cards back