Which statement is the most accurate description about the current understanding of executive functions,
according to the assigned reading this
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Phineas Gage was a railroad worker in the 19th century who suffered a horrible accident at work when a metal rod was propelled by an explosion through his skull, damaging a significant portion of his prefrontal
cortex. Amazingly, he remained conscious after the accident and soon the doctor declared that his intelligence was preserved. Despite the initial positive outlook, the brain damage did cause some impairment. Based on our knowledge now, we might expect the impairment to appear in .
Which of the following memory task requires the most involvement of executive functions?
In the conception of Norman and Shallice (1986), executive functions are engaged by processes.
After learning about attention, many of you realized that "mind wandering" happened frequently in your daily lives. To control or prevent that, which executive function would be most needed?
Accurate assessment of children's executive functions is very challenging, mainly due to the fact that .
Fuster (2002) proposed that, in order to execute a goal-direction action, the prefrontal cortex must integrate various units of perception, action and cognition that are separate in the dimension.
Attentional control is a major component of executive functions. For children (and adults with attention deficit), which of the following is the most challenging aspect of a task?
Working memory is closely related to the concept of executive functions in the component of .
Even though older adults sometimes showed a lower level of performance on laboratory executive tasks, they could also out-perform younger adults in real-life tasks because older adults .
Executive functions are difficult to measure because .
It is reasonable to expect very young toddlers to .
In the Stroop task, the subject must name the ink in which the words are printed while ignoring the colors that the words refer to. This task has been adopted for measuring which component of the executive functions?
One of the major challenges to research on the relationship between aging and executive functions is that
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In Stuss' theory (1992), is the highest level of cognitive monitoring ability that few other animals possess.
Executive functions have been found to rely on the integrity of the prefrontal cortex which has extensive connections with .
Many abilities now known as executive functions were identified through patients with damage to the lobes.
To behave in a socially acceptable and morally appropriate manner, the executive function of is the most critical.
Planning ability is an important component of executive functions and refers to the ability of organizing multiple steps toward a goal. This is often assessed with which of the following tasks?
Which cognitive domain requires the least level of executive functions in general? [Show Less]