Executive functions

Executive function refers to the cognitive systems that control and manage other cognitive processes. Executive functions help people to manage their life tasks; some of these processes let children to be organized and keep track of things physically and mentally. Working memory helps children to keep information in their mind. Decision making helps them to think before they act. Also Executive function helps them in attention, focus and other more tasks. According to David Zelazo Executive…

The article Executive Function – Describing Six Aspects of a Complex Syndrome discusses the subtle but powerful linkage between attention and multiple aspects of the brain’s management system. The executive function, also known as the management system of the brain is linked to 6 clusters. These clusters operate on a connective system to perform related cognitive functions in attention. “Most persons diagnosed with ADHD report significant chronic difficulties in at least some aspect of each…

Executive Function refers to the cognitive processes that help us control, regulate and manage our thoughts and actions, including working memory, planning, problem solving etc. (Joseph & Tager-Flusberg, 2004). It is the ability to hold and manipulate information, and is the conscious control of thought and action into goal-orientated behaviour (Pellicano, 2007). Most individuals on the autistic spectrum have some level of impaired executive function and exhibit rigid and inflexible behaviour,…

Introduction Ullsperger, Bylsma, and Botvinick (2005) investigated a phenomenon called conflict adaptation, which refers to the pattern in which the difference in response times between incongruent and congruent trials in a basic flanker task is smaller when the current trial follows an incongruent trial. At the time of their study, there was a debate in the field concerning what drives this effect. A previous study by Botvinick, Nystrom, Fissell, Carter, and Cohen (1999) argued that this…

another” (Marian and Shook, 2012). The brain is constantly alternating back and forth between languages. This also led to children being able to adjust to different environments a lot better than a monolingual child. “Bilingual have an improved “Executive Function”, a command system that directs the attention process that we use for planning, solving problems and performing various…

Growth mindset, executive function, and empathy are three habits of mind that can help people achieve their goals. Growth Mindset mean a self-perception or self-theory that people hold about themselves. Believing that you are either intelligent or unintelligent is a simple example of Growth Mindset. The brain is actually quite like plastic, and can be reshaped over time, forming new neural pathways. The important part of Mindset is most of those who have achieved greatness, to use shakespeare’s…

Affrunti, N.; & Woodruff-Borden, J. (2015). The Associations of Executive Function and Temperament in a Model of Risk for Childhood Anxiety. Journal Of Child & Family Studies, 24(3), 715-724. To locate this article, I used the search terms “anxiety and executive function in the scholarly journals tab within the Psychology Research Guide. Researchers in this study used information that had been previously gathered from a larger study. They narrowed the participants by using addition criteria…

separated into two parts. The first part is called the first fundamental theorem of calculus and states that one of the antiderivatives of some function may be obtained as the integral of the function with a variable bound of integration. The second part of the theorem, called the second fundamental theorem of calculus, states that the integral of a function over some interval can be computed by using any one of its infinitely many antiderivatives. The fundamental theorem of calculus along…

John Gutmann was one of America’s most distinctive photographers. Gutmann was born in Germany where he became an artist. He later fled Germany due to the Nazi’s because he was a Jew. Gutmann moved to San Francisco and re-established himself as a photojournalist captivating the lives of Americans. He mainly took photographs of people who were imperfect like himself because of his Jewish nationality. Gutmann targeted the poor, circus folk, the gay community and the rich. Two of Gutmann’s works are…

theorem of calculus asserts the interrelated properties of integration and differentiation. It says that a function when differentiated, can be brought back by integrating (anti-derivative) or a function when integrated, can be brought back by differentiation. First theorem: Let f be a function that is integrable on [a,x] for each x in [a,b], then let c be such that a≤c≤b and define a new function A as follows, A(x)=∫_c^x▒f(x)dt, if a≤x≤b. Then the derivative A’(x) exists at each point x in the…