by Harold Taylor | Aug 29, 2014 | Executive Function Skills
Sustained attention is the capacity to focus on a task despite fatigue or boredom – to be able to maintain attention and not be easily distracted or sidetracked. You are strong in this executive skill if you are able to screen out distractions and complete a task...
by Harold Taylor | Aug 21, 2014 | Executive Function Skills
Emotional control, the next executive skill that we’ll discuss, is the ability to manage emotions in order to achieve goals. If you are strong in this skill you are relatively unemotional and cool under pressure. You’re not easily sidetracked, resist temptation,...
by Harold Taylor | Aug 14, 2014 | Executive Function Skills, Memory
Working memory is the ability to hold information in memory while performing complex tasks such as language comprehension, learning and reasoning. In the middle of a hectic day when you’re going from one crisis to another and you still remember that you were...
by Harold Taylor | Aug 7, 2014 | Executive Function Skills
Understanding response inhibition It would be great if we were all strong in the executive skills listed in last week’s blog; but unfortunately few of us are. I have never met anyone who didn’t struggle at times with self-control, patience, focus, time...
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