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Executive Functioning is a set of higher-level cognitive skills associated with the frontal lobe that fully develops in early adulthood.
- Attention Span: The amount of time focused on a task or activity without becoming distracted.
- Emotional Control: Noticing, evaluating, and expressing emotions in challenging situations.
- Flexible Thinking: Adapting to new, unexpected, or changing situations by shifting thoughts and actions.
- Impulse Control: Resisting or delaying an urge, temptation, or impulse and taking the time to consider the consequences of actions before responding.
- Organization: Systematically arranging tasks, activities, and resources in a structured and efficient manner.
- Perspective Taking: Seeing things from multiple viewpoints and understanding that information can be interpreted differently.
- Planning: A structured approach that involves identifying steps, resources, and timeframes.
- Prioritizing: The process of determining the relative importance of tasks and the order of completion (i.e., prioritizing critical & time-sensitive tasks first).
- Self-Monitoring: Evaluating performance, personal strengths and weaknesses, necessary adjustments, and strategy modification.
- Sequencing: The order in which events, ideas, or steps occur.
- Task Initiation: The ability to begin and engage in a task without unnecessary procrastination or hesitation.
- Working Memory: Retaining and using previously learned information in real time.
Executive Functioning
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Brandon & Kayla Getting Married at Tahkenitch Lake
Wedding
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