Human Growth and Development / Unit 7 HGD 0924 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Executive Functions
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The idea
Executive functions are skills for regulating behaviour toward goals: working memory, attentional control, inhibition, mental flexibility, planning and organization.
In practice
A child packing her school bag the night before, remembering the permission slip.
Where people slip
They develop through adolescence with prefrontal maturation, are shaped by warm, responsive parenting, and predict achievement and social behaviour.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Builds on
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