What is executive functioning?

Executive Functioning skills are the mental skills you need to ______.

• improve your grades

• plan and achieve goals

• get into a good college

• make other people happy

Metacognition refers to your awareness of how you ___. You use metacognition when you learn from your mistakes and make deliberate changes in your behavior.

• speak

• look

• think

• study

When you have a project or long-term assignment, it is best to ____.

• spend as much time working as possible

• break down the work into smaller steps

• get started immediately

• ask a teacher for advice on how to get started

Avoiding distractions involves the skills of ___ and ___. (This question has two answers.)

• response inhibition

• emotional control

• working memory

• metacognition

Comparing your brain to a computer, working memory can best be compared to ___.

• RAM (random access memory)

• storage (a hard drive)

• an input device (such as a keyboard)

• a processor

People with difficulty managing time tend to ____ how long tasks take to finish. As a result, they often don't finish their work in time.

• underestimate

• overestimate

Task initiation means getting started on a task without distraction or delay. The best strategy for independently getting started on school assignments is to ___.

• start at the same time every day

• ask a parent to remind you to do your work

• stop watching television

• do your work in a room without a computer

Working memory is the ability to keep information in mind while .....

• using the information to perform a task

• performing another task at the same time

• avoiding distractions

• starting a task right away

Some methods of remembering to complete a task independently include ___. More than one answer is correct.

• writing a list

• using a post-it

• setting an alarm on your phone

• asking an adult to remind you

• tying a string on your finger

Not using response inhibition can be described as ____.

• acting without thinking

• starting without planning

• planning without an agenda

• pretending to understand