Human Growth and Development / Unit 5 HGD 0630 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Executive Function and Attention
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The idea
Executive function, planning, organising, deciding and controlling impulses, develops in early childhood along with attention and inhibitory control, damping distractions.
In practice
A five-year-old ignoring a noisy toy to finish a puzzle.
Where people slip
Information processing sees these gains as quantitative, growing step by step, where Piaget described qualitative changes in kind.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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