Sentences with phrase «cognitive executive function skills»

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On a cognitive level, growing up in a chaotic and unstable environment — and experiencing the chronic elevated stress that such an environment produces — disrupts the development of a set of skills, controlled by the prefrontal cortex, known as executive functions: higher - order mental abilities that some researchers compare to a team of air - traffic controllers overseeing the working of the brain.

Bilinguals have better cognitive and verbal skills, as well as higher executive function.

These include parent education to help parents better understand and engage with their child, behavior modification to improve behavior and achievement motivation, relaxation training and biofeedback to improve impulsivity and emotional control, simple cognitive exercises to improve executive functioning, social skills training to improve relationships with adults and peers and cognitive behavioral therapy to improve problem solving skills and build self - esteem.

«Childhood aggression linked to deficits in executive function: Primary school children with reduced cognitive skills for planning and self - restraint are more likely to show increased aggression in middle childhood.»

Executive functions are cognitive skills we all use to analyze tasks, break them into steps and keep them in mind until we get them done.

Three core executive functions — inhibition, working memory, and cognitive flexibility — are viewed as fundamental developmental skills for later civic engagement.

«What we found was that training higher - order cognitive skills can have a positive impact on untrained key executive functions as well as lower - level, but also important, processes such as straightforward memory, which is used to remember details.

The cognitive abilities that are tested for this diagnosis are complex attention, language, executive function (which are skills that enable people to plan, organize, remember things, prioritize, or pay attention to tasks, for example), visuospatial function (the visual perception of spatial relationships among objects), memory, and social cognition.

The cognitive abilities that are tested for this diagnosis are complex attention, language, executive function (skills that enable people to plan, organize, remember things, prioritize, or pay attention to tasks, for example), visuospatial function (the visual perception of spatial relationships among objects), memory, and social cognition.

There are a variety of mental stresses involved in an emergency situation, how an individual handles that stress is related to the Executive Skill of Stress Tolerance (a cognitive function that is hardwired into each individual and determines their reaction to highly stressful ordeals).

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They might not gain the tools to develop executive function skills, such as planning and ability to pay attention, and they could be at risk for other weakened cognitive skills, too.

After general knowledge, the next best predictor is fine - motor skill, which is correlated with the development of «executive function,» a cognitive ability.

These habits draw heavily on executive function (EF) skills, cognitive processes that include problem - solving, goal setting, and flexible thinking.

According to a new report from Jones, Rebecca Bailey, Sophie P. Barnes, and Ann Partee, executive function skills are specific, simple cognitive skills.

cognitive (executive function skills): working memory, planning, intentional self - control, flexible thinking skills, and task persistence.

The research team is extending an existing evidence - based, teacher - and child - focused curricular intervention that targets self - regulation and executive function skills in PreK - 3rd grade classrooms, called «SECURe: Social, Emotional, and Cognitive Understanding and Regulation in education.»

Parenting calls heavily on our executive functions, a set of cognitive skills and processes that are impaired in ADHD brains.

Dr. Francisco's approach is family - focused with an emphasis on action - oriented interventions such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and skills training in the areas of Social Communication, Executive Functioning, and Independent Living.

Higher cognitive processes; executive functions and working memory have been found to promote the acceleration of literacy and mathematical skills acquisition in primary schooling (Welsh et al., 2010; Clark, Pritchard, & Woodward, 2010; Willoughby et al., 2012; Röthlisberger et al., 2012) and enhance the resilience of children who experience early adversity (Pears et al., 2010).

Children with strong social cognition tend to have stronger language abilities, emotion regulation and executive function skills (e.g., planning skills, self - control, and cognitive flexibility).

High - risk youth with more developed executive function skills show better cognitive and behavioural school readiness and performance.3, 12 These skills appear to enable children to navigate their constantly changing environment, 9,13 which may be especially key for children developing in chaotic environments.

From newborns to teenagers, we have classes that help parents and caregivers learn skills that are proven to enhance cognitive, social and emotional development; improve executive function and impulse control, improve school readiness and academic performance while reducing child abuse and neglect, drug and alcohol abuse and a wide range of other risk factors for children.

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Several labels or terms have been used (grit, life skills, applied skills, executive function, emotional intelligence, non cognitive skills, soft skills, character skills, leadership skills, and on, and on) but are they all same?

Yet while many recent preschool interventions have been found to have short - term effects on young children's language, literacy, mathematics, executive function, and social - emotional development, studies show that impacts on cognitive and academic skills tend to diminish in early elementary school — a phenomenon commonly known as fade - out or convergence.

Our clinicians use a wide range of standardized tests, to help us compile information regarding an individual's emotional, social and behavioral patterns, as well as cognitive skills, executive functioning abilities, and other factors that might be impacting your everyday functioning.

Day two will include key information on the formation of Executive Function Skills (XFS) and the important role played by these important frontal lobe functions in the regulation and control of behaviors and emotions and the subsequent development of our critical higher order cognitive functions: organization, self - directed motivation, and self - understanding.

Computer - based training programs targeting attention focusing and control has proven to enhance efficiency of the brain attention system in young children as well as reasoning capacities.14 It has also been shown that classroom curricula that emphasize regulation and executive functions skills, such as Tools of the Mind, 17 improves children's cognitive control.18 But home environment is also important.

The program used mindfulness - based, cognitive interventions to build skills for responding to risky situations and improving executive function (including reasoning and problem solving).

From a socio - cultural viewpoint, cognitively responsive behaviours (e.g. maintaining versus redirecting interests, rich verbal input) are thought to facilitate higher levels of learning because they provide a structure or scaffold for the young child's immature skills, such as developing attentional and cognitive capacities.9 Responsive behaviours in this framework promote joint engagement and reciprocity in the parent - child interaction and help a child learn to assume a more active and ultimately independent role in the learning process.10 Responsive support for the child to become actively engaged in solving problems is often referred to as parental scaffolding, and is also thought to be key for facilitating children's development of self - regulation and executive function skills, behaviours that allow the child to ultimately assume responsibility for their well - being.11, 12

We also found significant pretest by condition interaction effects on teacher reports of skills associated with executive function, including inhibitory control and shift (cognitive flexibility), and on teacher reported internalizing and externalizing behavior.

A study by Kent State University psychology professor John Gunstad recently found that among people who had underwent weight - loss surgery, those with better memory and executive function went on to lose more weight than those with poorer cognitive skills.