Educational Psychology / Unit 5 EDP 0422 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Executive Function
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The idea
Executive function includes inhibition, cognitive flexibility and working memory, the skills that let a learner control attention and switch between tasks.
In practice
Stopping to check work instead of blurting an answer draws on inhibition.
Where people slip
Warm, scaffolding parenting predicts stronger executive function, which keeps developing through adolescence.
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