All Things Brain
EF Skills
Executive Function Definitions
Executive Function Definitions Con't.
Memory
100
Frontal Lobe
Where are executive functions located?
100

Modeling

What is a good way to learn executive functioning skills?

100
Initiate
What is the ability to start a task?
100
Emotional Control
What is the ability to handle frustrating situations or difficult tasks?
100
Five
What is the number of new pieces of information that can be given to an 11 year old at one time?
200
25
What is the age that executive functions are fully developed?
200

Practice

What is something people can do to develop their executive?

200

Attention

What is the ability to sustain attention to uninteresting tasks?

200

Inhibition (clue: inhibit or hold back)

What is the ability to control impulses and modulate one's own behavior?

200
93%-97%
What is the number of known words that should be in a passage for optimum comprehension?
300
Constant Feedback
What is something that students need in order to develop their EF's?
300

Working Memory

What is the ability to hold onto information in the mind in order to complete a task?

300
Self-Monitor
What is the ability to check work and keep track of one's behavior and goals?
300

35

What is number of times (a student with average cognition needs) needed in order to remember somthing?

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