Download Relationship Among Executive Functions in How the Brain Works and more Thesis Accounting in PDF only on Docsity! Running head: HOW THE BRAIN WORKS ECE 353 ECE 353 Cognitive Development of Infants & Young Children How the Brain Works RELATIONSHIP AMONG EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONS • Working Memory- Regulates behavior and cognitive and emotional activity. • Temporarily manipulates information • Impulse control • Generate different solutions to a problem • Set-Shifting- Develops strategies to achieve an objective (Cortés Pascual, et al., 2019) R OL E OF E X EC UT IV E F UN CTION S Working Memory: Holds on the information that will be needed to perform a task and supports with concentration and following directions. For example: a child is told to only find blue blocks. The child uses the working memory to remember that they are only looing for blue blocks. Inhibitory Control: Involves self-control, staying focused, and following directions. For example: The child can bypass the other colored blocks because they are focused on finding the blue ones. Set-Shifting: The ability to switch tasks. For example: the child is told mid-task to stop looking for blue blocks, and to start looking for the yellow blocks. Key Words Working Memory- the small amount of information that can be held in mind and used in the execution of cognitive tasks Attention- A cognitive system that regulates mental activity, regulates the focus of the sensory system, and maintains alertness. Executive Functions - A constellation back and forth between tasks, operations, of cognitive process that direct behavior or mental sets when changing goals or in a plan- based, organized, and environmental experiences. (Farrar, et al., 2015) Working Memory • Infants- Peekaboo or Hide-and-find games like this exercise working memory, because they challenge the baby to remember who is hidin • Toddlers use memory when repeating lines from nursery rhymes and so • Preschoolers recall how the puzzle looks before they reassemble • School-Age play games in which the child can match playing cards, either by suit or numb Inhibitory control • Infants- Songs or chants with simple hand motions are a lot of fun for infants and develop self-control and working memory as well as languag • Toddlers can refrain from touching the hot stove after being told not t • Preschool ability to delay gratification emerg • School-Age children have more control on their behaviors and emotions when playing with other children g ngs it er e. o es Set Shifting • Infants can maintain mental representation of a hidden obje • Toddlers- Engage older toddlers in a silly sorting game, such as putting small shapes in a big bucket and big shapes in a small bucket • Preschool can switch from a task to another one and then go back to the first tas This stu•dy soSurcche owoasl-dAowgnelocaadend mbyo1v00e00b0a8c18k8a48n2d99fforormthCbouertsewHeereon.cosmoomn e06th-0i6n- 2g02a1n0d5:f4i9n:2is0hGMboTt-h05t:0h0ings’, like answering two questions g ngs it er e. o es . ct . k.
