Executive Functioning

Question 1

Response Inhibition

Answer 1

The capacity to think before you act. This ability to resist the urge to say or do something allows us the time to evaluate a situation and how our behavior might impact it

Question 2

Emotional control

also called self-regulation of affect

Answer 2

The ability to manage emotions in order to achieve goals, complete tasks, or control and direct behavior

Question 3

Sustained attention

Answer 3

The capacity to attend to a situation or task in spite of distractibility, fatigue, or boredom.

Question 4

Task inhibition

Answer 4

The ability to begin a task without undue procrastination, in a timely fashion

Question 5

Flexibility

Answer 5

The ability to revise plans in the face of obstacles, setbacks, new information, or mistakes. It involves adaptability to changing conditions.

Question 6

Goal directed persistence

Answer 6

The capacity or drive to follow through to the complete of a gaol and not be put off by other demand or competing interests.

Question 7

Metacognition

Answer 7

The ability to stand back and take a bird’s eye view of oneself in a situation. It’s an ability to observe how you problem solve. eg how am i doing or how did i do?

Question 8

Myelin

Answer 8

A fatty sheath that forms around the axon and provides insulation that helps to increase speed of transmission of nerve signals.

Makes the communication process more efficient

Question 9

At what age does gray matter begin to rapidly grow?

Answer 9

11 or 12

Question 10

What parts of the brain play a major role in executive functioning?

Answer 10

Frontal/prefrontal cortex

Question 11

What does the frontal lobe do? Part 1

Answer 11

It decides what is worth attending to and what is worth doing.

Provides contiunity and coherence to beahvior across time.

Question 12

What does the frontal lobe do? Part 2

Answer 12

The frontal lobes modulate affective and interpersonal behaviors so that drives are satisfied within the constraints of the internal and external environments

2. The frontal lobes monitor, evaluate and adjust.

Question 13

Behavior inhibition

Answer 13

1. Inhibit prepotent response
2. Interrupt an ongoing response
3. Interference control

Question 14

Working memory

Answer 14

Holding events in mind
Manipulating or acting on events
self-awareness

Question 15

Internalizing of speech

Answer 15

Description and reflection
Moral reasoning
Reading comprehension

Question 16

Self-regulation of affect/motivation/arousal

Answer 16

Self-regulation of affect

Self-regulation of motivation

Question 17

Resconsitution

Answer 17

Analysis and synthesis of behavior
Verbal fluency/behavioral fluency
Rule creativity

Question 18

Motor control/fluency/syntax

Answer 18

Inhibition of task-irrelevant responses
Execution of goal-directed responses
Goal-directed persistence

Question 19

Non-verbal working memory

Answer 19

The ability to code, store, and recover information about faces, shapes, images, songs, sounds, smells, tastes, and feelings.

Question 20

Internalization of Speech

Answer 20

Images can now be represented with words

Question 21

Self Regulation of affect/motivation/arousal

Answer 21

It involves a number of subskills including regulation of emotional and motivational states, regulation of arousal, and the capacity for social perspective taking.

Question 22

Analysis and synthesis of behavior

Answer 22

This executive skill enables the individual to divide more complex behavioral sequences into component units (analysis) and recombine them in novel ways (synthesis) to solve new problems or reach new goals.