Testing Self-Control with Card Sorting

Executive function is the set of mental skills that help children manage behavior, attention, and planning. These skills support self-regulation, including making plans to solve problems, choosing between desires and actions, and staying focused on a task.

A simple example is a child who must sto...

Developing executive function is one of the key challenges faced by children as they age.

For example, a child must use several executive processes to stop playing with toys and start cleaning their room. Such processes include: inhibition?stopping what they?re doing, planning?the actions needed to clean the room, and attentional control?s...