Exam 5: Executive Functions

Many children, adolescents, and adults have difficulty modulating unwanted thoughts, feelings, and emotions and therefore struggle to control their behavior. Which concept is this?

During infancy and toddlerhood, which behaviors reflect brain development relating to executive functions?

ADHD is essentially a disorder of executive functioning.

What percent of social work professionals from a national survey felt that psychotropic medication was a necessary treatment for many emotional disorders?

Which type of ADHD is most associated with cognitive and academic problems?

Auerbach's research has shown that behavioral markers of vulnerability to ADHD can be seen during which life stage?

Executive functions are basically the same thing as intelligence.

Social workers are powerless to improve the behavioral functioning of their clients because executive functions are based in the brain.

In what ways can social work professionals assist clients with managing emotion and reward given the basis of executive functions in the brain?

Which is not an executive function?

Which skills are involved in executive functions?

The implications of healthy and deficient executive functioning can be seen in which life stages?

Which is a successful interventions that targets executive functions?

Academic success is enhanced by which executive functions?

Behavioral genetic at the Institute for Behavioral Genetics at the University of Colorado found that executive functioning was how heritable?

Research based on the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent health data found that factors such as prenatal cigarette exposure, nutrition, breastfeeding, and maternal involvement were associated with executive functions. Why are these findings important to social work professionals?

Behavioral disinhibition has been linked to which behavioral outcomes?

What are the differences between hot executive functions and cold executive functions? Why are both important for understanding social work client behavior?

A social work client is unable to modulate emotion and reward-based motivations and the result is behavioral disinhibition, which is a general behavioral tendency characterized by failure to inhibit antisocial behaviors because of susceptibility to emotional impulses and rewards. Which common social work client problem often results from behavioral disinhibition?

Criminologists have shown that executive functions are not significantly associated with antisocial and criminal behavior.