Executive Functioning Skills

Match the following

• regulate feelings when stressed

• Task initiation

• adaptable & willing to adjust to change

• Sustained attention

• start a task without procrastination

• Emotional control

• keep track of tasks & deadlines

• Flexibility

• maintain focus over a period of time

• Organisation

The skill to hold information in your head temporarily while doing complex cognitive (thinking) tasks.

• working memory

• multi-tasking

• working mastery

• task management

Answer explanation

Working memory is an executive function that plays a big role in how we process, use and remember information on a daily basis. Remembering a phone number, recalling directions, or writing an essay are all tasks that use working memory.

Match the following

• ensure tasks are completed by due date

• prioritisation

• think about one's own learning

• time management

• deciding which tasks are most important

• metacognition

• act carefully; consider consequences

• response inhibition/impulse control

• set goals & follow through until done

• goal-directed persistence