What is Executive Functioning?
Executive function and self-regulation skills are the mental processes that enable us to plan, focus attention, remember instructions, and juggle multiple tasks successfully. Executive function and self-regulation skills depend on three types of brain function: working memory, mental flexibility, and self-control. Each type of executive function skill draws on elements of the others.
On this page we will try to give you brief tips on organization and strategies to help promote building on your executive functioning skills specifically to be successful at Lake Park High School.
Executive function and self-regulation skills are the mental processes that enable us to plan, focus attention, remember instructions, and juggle multiple tasks successfully. Executive function and self-regulation skills depend on three types of brain function: working memory, mental flexibility, and self-control. Each type of executive function skill draws on elements of the others.
- Working memory governs our ability to retain and manipulate distinct pieces of information over short periods of time.
- Mental flexibility helps us to sustain or shift attention in response to different demands or to apply different rules in different settings.
- Self-control enables us to set priorities and resist impulsive actions or responses.
On this page we will try to give you brief tips on organization and strategies to help promote building on your executive functioning skills specifically to be successful at Lake Park High School.
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