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Executive Functioning Skills

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 30mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Figuring out the most relevant information, deciding what to do first.

a)

Working Memory

b)

Organization and Planning

c)

Flexible Thinking

d)

Task Initiation

2.

Shifting from one idea to another and moving from one task to another.

a)

Working Memory

b)

Task Initiation

c)

Organization and Planning

d)

Flexible Thinking

3.

The ability to hold on and remember information while manipulating information in our minds.

a)

Working Memory

b)

Flexible Thinking

c)

Task Initiaton

d)

Organization and Planning

4.

Our capacity to tolerate, understand and manage our feelings in a way that feels healthy and productive.

a)

Self-Monitoring

b)

Impulse Control

c)

Emotion Regulation

d)

Organization and Planning

5.

Reviewing and Thinking about our actions to figure out how we're doing.

a)

Self-Monitoring

b)

Organization and Planning

c)

Task Initiation

d)

Flexible Thinking

6.

The ability to stop ourselves from acting on instinct.

a)

Working Memory

b)

Flexible Thinking

c)

Impulse Control

d)

Task Initiation

7.

Getting started on tasks, particularly ones we don't want to do.

a)

Impulse Control

b)

Emotion Regulation

c)

Flexible Thinking

d)

Task Initiation

8.

People often tell me I need to chill out or let things go.

a)

Flexible Thinking

b)

Emotion Regulation

c)

Working Memory

d)

Impulse Control

9.

I have trouble telling how big a deal things are.

a)

Impulse Control

b)

Emotion Regulation

c)

Flexible Thinking

d)

Organization and Planning

10.

I often forget what step I'm on when doing large projects.

a)

Task Initiation

b)

Working Memory

c)

Impulse Control

d)

Organization and Planning.

11.

I tend to act first and think second.

a)

Flexible Thinking

b)

Working Memory

c)

Impulse Control

d)

Task Initiation

12.

I like to wait until the last minute to start my work.

a)

Working Memory

b)

Organization and Planning

c)

Impulse Control

d)

Task Initiation

13.

When I'm doing something fun I can spend long periods hyperfocused without noticing what's going on around me.

a)

Working Memory

b)

Attention and Focus

c)

Task Initiation

d)

Organization and Planning

14.

I usually leave the house without everything I need for the day.

a)

Organization and Planning

b)

Working Memory

c)

Task Initiation

d)

Emotion Regulation.

15.

I'm not good at compromising.

a)

Emotion Regulation

b)

Flexible Thinking

c)

Impulse Control

d)

Task Initiation

16.

People get annoyed when they need to repeat things they just said because I forgot.

a)

Emotion Regulation

b)

Impulse Control

c)

Working Memory

d)

Organization and Planning

17.

I get really mad when things don't go my way.

a)

Organization and Planning,

b)

Emotion Regulation

c)

Impulse Control

d)

Flexible Thinking

18.

I do things without thinking about the consequences.

a)

Impulse Control

b)

Emotion Regulation

c)

Flexible Thinking

d)

Task Initiation

19.

I can't work up the energy to get started.

a)

Impulse Control

b)

Task Initiation

c)

Working Memory

d)

Flexible Thinking

20.

I find myself day dreaming in class and then suddenly realize I don't know what's going on.

a)

Task Initiation

b)

Working Memory

c)

Organization and Planning

d)

Attention and Focus