Test Yourself - The 8 Executive Function Skills

Match each definition to the corresponding Executive Function Skill. It's okay if you aren't familiar with these terms and their definitions. You'll have an opportunity to learn more about the skills in the next activity.

Test Yourself

Executive Function Skills

Self-Regulation

Cognitive Flexibility

Metacognition

The ability to maintain and adjust our emotional state when faced with frustrations, sadness, anxiety, fear, and excitement. This includes the ability to inhibit our actions when emotionally challenged.

QUESTION 1 of 8

When students struggle with this skill, they may: - be easily frustrated by situations - appear overwhelmed - lash out verbally or physically.

Self-Regulation is the ability to maintain and adjust our emotional state when faced with frustrations, sadness, anxiety, fear, and excitement.

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Task Initation

Memory

Organization

The ability to coordinate objects or tasks in a structured and systematic manner.

QUESTION 2 of 8

When students struggle with this skill, they may: - have difficulty keeping papers organized - their computer desktop may have files overlapping - their backpacks are overflowing with papers - they seem lost - they struggles with finding assignments - they seems overwhelmed with task demand

Organization is the ability to coordinate objects or tasks in a structured and systematic manner.

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Task Initation

Metacognition

Planning, Prioritization, & Time Management

The ability to choose what matters and allocate time accordingly.

QUESTION 3 of 8

When students struggle with this skill, they may: - Struggle with gauging time - Have incomplete work - Require more time than peers - Often surprised to learn about due dates - Late to school or class - Difficulty determining priorities - Difficulty breaking down assignment - Difficulty identifying long range goals

Planning, Prioritization, & Time Management refer to the ability to choose what matters and allocate time accordingly.

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Task Initation

Self-Regulation

Attention

The ability to get started on tasks, especially non-preferred tasks.

QUESTION 4 of 8

When students struggle with this skill, they may: - Struggle to get started - Procrastinate - Make endless excuses not to start - Create diversions - May know what needs to be done, but just can't get going

Task Initiation is the ability to get started on tasks, especially non-preferred tasks.

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Memory

Attention

Self-Regulation

The ability to sustain focus and ignore distractions.

QUESTION 5 of 8

When students struggle with this skill, they may: - have difficulty paying attention - be easily distracted - struggle to focus on the relevant information.

Attention is the ability to sustain focus and ignore distractions.

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Metacognition

Cognitive Flexibility

Attention

The ability to adapt and shift between perspectives: from main idea to detail, from part to whole and back; to hold various points of view.

QUESTION 6 of 8

When students struggle with this skill, they may: - Experience rigid thinking and/or a fixed mindset - Struggle to see another's point of view - Difficulty with transitions - Struggle to transition from one idea to another - Be frustrated by new approaches and change - Feel upset when met with the unexpected - Struggle to go from details to the big picture and vice versa

Congitive Flexibility is the ability to adapt and shift between perspectives

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Organization

Metacognition

Self-Regulation

The ability to observe one's actions and results and then make modifications in pursuit of a goal.

QUESTION 7 of 8

When students struggle with this skill, they may: - Have difficulty understanding abstract language - Struggle to understand expectations - Have difficulty applying knowledge to new situations - Struggle with internal knowledge - Struggle to know one's own strengths and weaknesses and how to work with them

Metaocgnition is the ability to ability to observe one's actions and results and then make modifications in pursuit of a goal.

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Attention

Memory

Self-Regulation

The ability to store information for spontaneous use.

QUESTION 8 of 8

When students struggle with this skill, they may: - Be forgetful often - Have difficulty manipulating mental information - Struggle to recall what was just said or seen

Memory is the ability to store informatic for spontaneous use.

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Thanks for compelting this Excutive Function CFU. You can move on to the next activity in the course.

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Executive Function Skills