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...
by Harold Taylor | Jul 31, 2014 | Executive Function Skills
An overview of the executive function skills A 2010 book, where the same authors of Smart but Scattered, Peggy Dawson and Richard Guare, team up with Chuck Martin, who has also been researching this area, is called Work Your Strengths: a Scientific Approach to...
by Harold Taylor | Jul 25, 2014 | Executive Function Skills
Executive skills are critical in today’s world because life is getting more and more complicated with increasing numbers of choices and decisions to make and less time in which to make them. The ability to set goals, plan and prioritize, and stay on course is...
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